{"id":60686,"date":"2020-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/?p=60686"},"modified":"2023-05-23T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T10:02:36","slug":"sri-lankan-headlines-lebanon-president-named-tea-thief-after-misuse-of-donated-ceylon-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/60686\/sri-lankan-headlines-lebanon-president-named-tea-thief-after-misuse-of-donated-ceylon-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Headlines: Lebanon President Named &#8220;Tea Thief&#8221; After Misuse Of Donated Ceylon Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"Another \u201clight\u201d on the food aid controversy.<br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lebanon president named \u201ctea thief\u201d after misuse of donated Ceylon Tea <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lebanon?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lebanon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeaThief?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeaThief<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J1vGtVRkuj\">https:\/\/t.co\/J1vGtVRkuj<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n7iAwwxj03\">pic.twitter.com\/n7iAwwxj03<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tamil Guardian (@TamilGuardian) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TamilGuardian\/status\/1304008079994953730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/>  Social media erupted in criticism, with the hashtags &#8220;tea thief&#8221; and &#8220;Ceylon tea&#8221; trending on Twitter after Lebanon\u2019s president Michel Aoun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/60668\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">had tweeted to his Sri Lankan counterparts<\/a> to thank them for &#8220;a gift of Ceylon tea that had been received by the army&#8230; and distributed to the families of soldiers in the presidential guard.\u201d <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0627 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gMUym7RpvR\">pic.twitter.com\/gMUym7RpvR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lebanese Presidency (@LBpresidency) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBpresidency\/status\/1297844869264793601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>   The Sri Lankan tea was originally provided as a donation to the victims of the Beirut blast, and thus a Sri Lankan headline wrote: Lebanon President Named \u201cTea Thief\u201d After Misuse Of Donated Ceylon Tea. <br \/>  <br \/>  <br \/> <br \/> 1","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another \u201clight\u201d on the food aid controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":623233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-60686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sri Lankan Headlines: Lebanon President Named &quot;Tea Thief&quot; 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