Hazy days
Fires break records
Jakarta - the forest fires blanketing southeast asia in choking haze are on track to become among the worst on record, NASA has warned, with a prolonged dry season hampering efforts to curb a crisis that has persisted for nearly two decades, officials said on october 2.
Malaysia, singapore and large expenses of indonesia have suffered for weeks from acrid smoke billowing from fires on plantations that are being illegally cleared by burning.
The crisis grips the region nearly every year during the dry season. -AFP