{"id":986710,"date":"2026-01-21T07:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986710"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:20:00","slug":"hong-kong-to-call-10-witnesses-in-case-over-baltic-sea-undersea-cable-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/hong-kong-to-call-10-witnesses-in-case-over-baltic-sea-undersea-cable-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to call 10 witnesses in case over Baltic Sea undersea cable damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG: Ten \u200dwitnesses will be called to testify in \u2060a &#8220;criminal damage&#8221; case against a Chinese captain of a Hong Kong-registered \u200cship \u200calleged to have damaged undersea cables in \u200cthe Baltic Sea, his lawyer told reporters in Hong Kong after a hearing on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Wan Wenguo, the captain of the container ship NewNew \u200cPolar Bear, \u200dis alleged to \u200dhave caused &#8220;criminal damage&#8221; to an underwater natural \u200cgas pipeline and submarine telecom cables between Finland and Estonia on October 8, 2023, according to a Hong Kong charge sheet \u200dreviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG: Ten \u200dwitnesses will be called to testify in \u2060a &#8220;criminal damage&#8221; case against a Chinese captain of a Hong Kong-registered \u200cship \u200calleged to have damaged undersea cables in \u200cthe Baltic Sea, his lawyer told reporters in Hong Kong after a hearing on Tuesday. Wan Wenguo, the captain of the container ship NewNew \u200cPolar Bear, \u200dis alleged to \u200dhave caused &#8220;criminal damage&#8221; to an underwater natural \u200cgas pipeline and submarine telecom cables between Finland and Estonia on October 8, 2023, according to a Hong Kong charge sheet \u200dreviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}