{"id":590019,"date":"2026-04-08T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590019\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:24:09","slug":"asian-governments-turn-to-subsidies-to-cushion-energy-crisis-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/590019\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian governments turn to subsidies to cushion energy crisis pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\/iran-war\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran war<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Price supports, tax cuts and cash handouts are the most popular measures<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260407 gas cylinders india\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Workers load gas cylinders onto a rickshaw for local distribution in New Delhi. India&#8217;s\u00a0government is one of many in Asia that is rolling out energy subsidies to help people cope with the global energy crisis. \u00a9 AP<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Even as a ceasefire in the Iran war comes into effect, Asian governments from Japan to Southeast Asia and India are moving to spend billions of dollars in subsidies to cushion populations from the most severe impacts of the Iran war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran war Price supports, tax cuts and cash handouts are the most popular measures Workers load gas cylinders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[40706,45,49,48,41850,224749,46,4717,2530,3563,8545,8352],"class_list":{"0":"post-590019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-asian","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-crisis","13":"tag-cushion","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-governments","17":"tag-pain","18":"tag-subsidies","19":"tag-turn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}