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Singapore Pollution Alert: Do Not Breath

By admin | Published: June 20, 2013

Singapore is experiencing severe air pollution due to fires in neighboring Indonesia islands. Indonesia told the Singapore government to “stop acting like a child.”

The UK’s telegraph states:

Singapore urged people to remain indoors amid unprecedented levels of air pollution on Thursday as a smoky haze wrought by forest fires in neighbouring Indonesia worsened dramatically.

Malaysia closed 200 schools and banned open burning in some areas.

Lee Hsien Loong, the country’s prime minister, warned that the haze could “easily last for several weeks and quite possibly longer”.

The Pollutant Standards Index, Singapore’s main measure for air pollution, surged to a record reading of 371, breaching the “hazardous” classification that can aggravate respiratory ailments. The previous all-time high before this week was in 1997, when the index reached 226.

The hazardous reading lasted three hours before easing to 253 in the evening, still “very unhealthy”.

Smog fuelled by raging Indonesian blazes has hit Singapore and Malaysia many times, often in the middle of the year, but the severity of this week’s conditions has strained diplomatic ties. Officials in Singapore say Jakarta must do more to halt fires on Sumatra island started by plantation owners and farmers to clear land cheaply.

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