Analysis
Thailand, Laos, Myanmar seek to head off looming dry-season haze and smog
THAILAND, Myanmar and Laos have launched a Joint Plan of Action, under the name of “CLEAR Sky Strategy” to pre-empt and prevent the annual dry-season haze and smog caused largely by forest fires and agricultural burning. While the joint effort may help mitigate the problem to some extent, speakers at the session admitted that […]
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Local News
Haze to shroud Bangkok for a week
A haze is expected to choke the Thai capital and the upper parts of the country until Monday next week, as changing atmospheric patterns are trapping PM2.5 dust particles and transboundary pollution from Cambodia over Thailand, according to the Centre for Air Pollution Mitigation. “Bangkok and some other parts of the country are now under […]
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