Key steps to combat forest fore, haze
Fitri Shahminan BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Public-private partnership, peatland management DEVELOPING new public-private partnership and managing the peatland were among the key steps identified in addressing forest fires and transboundary haze issues in the South Asian region. The hunt for new initiatives and mechanisms to resolve forest fire and transboundary haze issues in the South Asian region heightened yesterday as concerned…
Meeting addresses challenges in overcoming transboundary haze
Brunei Darussalam is highly commited in addressing challenges reating to haze, and this is reflected in the continued participation in issues pertaining to the matter. It is the aspiration of the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam to have a clean and healthy environment.
Experts urge countries to keep up integrated responses to beat haze
KUALA LUMPUR: Even as world attention focuses on earthquake and typhoon victims in Southeast Asia, there is grim reminder of another threat to the region – scientists and environmentalists are warning of a return of the choking haze due to an extended dry season in Indonesia. A little over a decade ago, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,…
Outlaw open burning on peat land, Sarawak urged
KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak should outlaw open burning on peat areas as they contribute to fires and the haze. Environmental advisor to the Sarawak Government Dr James Dawos Mamit said he would advise the Natural Resource and Environment Board to review its current practice of issuing permits to plantations on peat land to use burning in…
Thick haze in many parts of Sarawak
MIRI: Traveling along the Pan-Borneo Highway has become a very dangerous affair as visibility has been reduced to less than 100 metres in some stretches due to the worsening haze, made worse by the forest fires raging all over the state. The Star on Friday found some stretches of the highway along a 50-km route between…
ST.com News: Haze may worsen H1N1
KUALA LUMPUR – THE thick haze blanketing some parts of Malaysia could worsen the Influenza A (H1N1) situation by triggering more respiratory illnesses, Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai has said. Experts have warned that the current forest fires in Indonesia and Sarawak, if left unchecked, may bring about the region’s worst haze in 10 years….
