{"id":78898,"date":"2026-02-19T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/thai-police-go-undercover-as-lion-dancers-to-catch-thief\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:00:00","slug":"thai-police-go-undercover-as-lion-dancers-to-catch-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/thai-police-go-undercover-as-lion-dancers-to-catch-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai police go undercover as lion dancers to catch thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1a1ca45769db0aa5130b2ebea668f999365e8997\/0_0_4803_3841\/master\/4803.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=dd3c0d7494d1c9dab08e92158f9d16f5\" alt=\"Thai police go undercover as lion dancers to catch thief\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Thai police go undercover as lion dancers to catch thief<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Officers devise unusual plan to arrest man suspected of stealing about $64,000 worth of Buddhist artefactsThai police donned a lion costume during this week\u2019s lunar new year festivities to arrest a man accused of stealing about $64,000 worth of Buddhist artefacts.Dressed as a red-and-yellow lion, officers made the arrest on Wednesday evening after responding to a report this month of a home burglary in the suburbs of Bangkok. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/19\/thai-police-undercover-lion-dancers-catch-thief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Thai police go undercover as lion dancers to catch thief Officers devise unusual plan to arrest man suspected of stealing about $64,000 worth of Buddhist artefactsThai police donned a lion costume during this week\u2019s lunar new year festivities to arrest a man accused of stealing about $64,000 worth of Buddhist artefacts.Dressed as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":78899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}