Oh, how we wish the haze choking South-East Asia was just fog

The National ·
Environment & Nature Pollution Asia
United Arab Emirates

At last, over the weekend, the “haze” began to subside over Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, where I live. For nearly two months, the noxious air emanating from fires, mainly on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, had caused about 300,000 to suffer respiratory illness in Indonesia and led to a 260 per cent surge in asthma cases in Malaysia. As this blight on daily life lifted in parts of the region,…

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