{"id":551,"date":"2011-08-24T03:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T09:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2011-08-23T03:28:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T09:28:05","slug":"afp-photographers-gold-prize-for-thai-protest-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/afp-photographers-gold-prize-for-thai-protest-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP photographer&#8217;s gold prize for Thai protest shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/STI\/STIMEDIA\/image\/20110823\/nicolas.afp.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri, who took dramatic images of Thai &#8216;Red Shirt&#8217; protesters confronting security forces, was among leading winners of the first Yonhap International Press Awards presented in New York on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Asfouri, AFP&#8217;s senior photographer in Bangkok, won the US$5,000 gold prize in the Enhancement of International Peace category of the awards launched by South Korea&#8217;s national news agency.<\/p>\n<p>UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon led the presentation ceremony at the UN headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Asfouri&#8217;s winning montage showed one photo of a man covered in blood being carried away from the deadly demonstrations in Bangkok in April 2010 when followers of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra confronted security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP photographer Nicolas Asfouri, who took dramatic images of Thai &#8216;Red Shirt&#8217; protesters confronting security forces, was among leading winners of the first Yonhap International Press Awards presented in New York on Monday. Mr Asfouri, AFP&#8217;s senior photographer in Bangkok, won the US$5,000 gold prize in the Enhancement of International Peace category of the awards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}