Foreign Smoke Shuts Schools

KuchingSmoke from another country closed Sarawak’s schools.

Malaysian children now breathe pollution from fires no Malaysian agency can regulate.

Weeks of peat and plantation fires across Sumatra and Kalimantan, worsened by a severe dry season, carried haze over the border.

ASEAN’s regional haze pact carries no enforcement mechanism against the fires’ source.

Sources: The Diplomat