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Malaysia to Raise Transboundary Haze Crisis With ASEAN Foreign Ministers Ahead of Summit

This year’s particularly severe haze season has once again exposed the void in national and regional efforts to combat the problem.

Indonesians sue president over haze – can it clear the air?

For months, the air over West Kalimantan has been thick enough to taste. Now, some of the province’s residents are taking the government to court over it. Indonesia’s worst wildfir...

Transboundary haze poses long-term threat to wildlife, disrupting habitats, food sources and reproduction

 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 — Transboundary haze not only threatens human health, but also has a long-term eff...

As Indonesia’s wildfires rage, haze spreads farther across Southeast Asia

Haze from wildfires in Indonesia has spread even farther this week, reaching beyond Malaysia and Brunei to Singapore and the Philippines. On Sept. 4, Singaporean residents woke to...

Haze row: Malaysia to take transboundary pollution to Asean meeting in Manila

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 22 — Malaysia urges Indonesia to take firm and effective action to tackle fires contributing to tra...

Indonesia opens its skies to Malaysian rainmakers as haze crisis deepens

Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to share the skies amid a haze crisis that has closed nearly 600 Malaysian schools and erased much of the Kuala Lumpur skyline from view. The Pet...

DOE: Transboundary haze thickens 1,211 hotspots detected in southern Asean, mostly in Kalimantan

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 — Some 1,211 hotspots were detected across the southern Asean region based on National Oceani...

Haze triggers highest alert level in southern ASEAN zone: monitor

SINGAPORE — Ongoing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of Southeast Asia with toxic haze have triggered the highest-level alert by the regional bloc's climate and fire mo...

Asean climate monitor issues highest alert level over toxic haze

Ongoing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of Southeast Asia with toxic haze have triggered the highest-level alert by the regional bloc’s climate and fire monitor. “Acti...

Schools Close Across Sarawak Due to Toxic Haze From Indonesian Wildfires

Wildfires have raged for weeks across swathes of Sumatra and Kalimantan, exacerbated by a particularly severe dry season.

Malaysia aims to slap ‘disaster’ status on transboundary haze at Asean meet

SEPANG, Oct 13 — Malaysia will raise the issue of transboundary haze at an Asean foreign ministers’ meeting...

Haze triggers highest-level alert in Southeast Asia

Malaysia urged to police its firms in Indonesia as haze shuts schools

Malaysia is facing renewed pressure to clamp down on its companies over their alleged links to forest fires abroad, as recurring haze from Indonesia continues to disrupt schools an...

The deliberate crime of Indonesia’s toxic haze

Indonesia is once again dominating headlines across Southeast Asia as dense plumes of toxic haze drift into neighboring skies. Latest satellite monitoring data from the Ministry of...

Cross-border haze to ease in two weeks as monsoon transition begins, says deputy minister

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 — The cross-border haze that has affected Malaysia’s air quality since August 8 is expe...

ICJ? Asean? Civil suits? What can Malaysia, others do about Indonesia’s choking haze?

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 — Haze from Indonesian wildfires has blanketed neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore for more th...

Up in smoke: why Southeast Asia failed to halt the haze

Dr Asma Zafirah doesn’t need satellite images to know when Kalimantan is burning. She sees it in the watery eyes and laboured breaths of the patients at her clinic in Sarawak, and...

How haze from Indonesian fires impacts Southeast Asia

The hazardous smoke has led to more respiratory problems, forced schools to close and has been drifting to neighboring countries.

Malaysia’s air quality turns hazardous as Indonesian wildfires burn

Air pollution in Malaysia’s Bornean state of Sarawak has surged into hazardous territory, with the air pollutant index (API) topping 400 in the worst-hit district, as forest fires...

Transboundary haze discussed on sidelines of Asean health ministers meeting, says Dzulkefly

 KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 — The transboundary haze issue is not on the formal agenda of the 17th ASEAN Health Mi...

Malaysia, Indonesia to synchronise haze suppression ops as monsoon and El Niño converge

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 24 — Malaysia and Indonesia have agreed to ramp up preventive measures to tackle cross-border haze,...

Singapore probing firms over haze-causing Indonesian fires

The city-state and neighboring Malaysia have been blanketed for weeks by toxic smog from a severe wildfire season in Indonesia.

ASEAN to discuss tackling transboundary haze ahead of summit, Malaysia says

KUALA LUMPUR — Southeast Asian foreign ministers will discuss how to tackle haze blanketing parts of the region ahead of the ASEAN bloc’s summit next month, Malaysia’s top diplomat...

Does Singapore’s tougher stance on haze mark an inflection point?

Singapore has warned it will go after companies responsible for the forest fires in Indonesia causing the regional haze, but cross-border challenges remain stumbling blocks to solv...