{"id":18437,"date":"2026-07-26T12:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/26\/vietnamese-cargo-ship-sinks-south-china-sea-23-missing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T12:32:26","slug":"vietnamese-cargo-ship-sinks-south-china-sea-23-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/26\/vietnamese-cargo-ship-sinks-south-china-sea-23-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese Cargo Ship Sinks in South China Sea; 23 Missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Vietnamese cargo ship sank in the busy waters of the South China Sea, resulting in 23 people missing as search operations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese state media CCTV reported that the incident occurred on Sunday, with 39 crew members rescued so far.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from Hainan Province in southern China announced that the cargo ship &#8216;Kh\u00f4i Nguyen 18,&#8217; carrying 62 Vietnamese nationals, encountered an accident near the Fiery Cross Reef.<\/p>\n<p>According to CCTV, a Chinese rescue vessel named &#8216;Nanhai Jiu 115&#8217; first detected signs of the accident on Saturday evening after spotting an orange flame from the ship.<\/p>\n<p>The search and rescue operation involves six Chinese ships, one rescue helicopter, and one Vietnamese vessel. Registered in Vietnam, the ship measured approximately 70 meters in length and had a gross weight of 999 tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vietnamese cargo ship sank in the South China Sea; 23 are missing while rescue teams from China and Vietnam continue search efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}