{"id":1201,"date":"2026-02-11T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/1201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:01:23","slug":"antwerps-indian-diamond-traders-face-a-changing-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/1201\/","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp&#8217;s Indian diamond traders face a changing industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/commodities\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Commodities<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Gujerati Jain community ponders next move as business becomes tougher<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260113 Ashwin Jhaveri\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Ashwin Jhaveri, a trustee of the Shankheshwar Parshvanath Jain Temple, says trust is\u00a0key in\u00a0the diamond trade. (Photo by Clement Ngu)<\/p>\n<p>CLEMENT NGU<\/p>\n<p>January 18, 2026 10:58 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">ANTWERP, Belgium &#8212; In a suburb of Antwerp lies continental Europe&#8217;s only Jain temple whose austere white exterior contrasts with the opulent diamonds that underpinned its construction by Gujarati traders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commodities Gujerati Jain community ponders next move as business becomes tougher Ashwin Jhaveri, a trustee of the Shankheshwar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,1233,1237,49,1236,1234,175,1235],"class_list":{"0":"post-1201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-antwerp","8":"tag-antwerp","9":"tag-antwerps","10":"tag-changing","11":"tag-diamond","12":"tag-face","13":"tag-indian","14":"tag-industry","15":"tag-traders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}