Haze triggers highest-level alert in parts of Southeast Asia
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The haze has closed schools, fuelled a surge in respiratory conditions and restricted outdoor activities in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and East Timor.
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“This thing needs to stop,” Zul Hafiz, a 39-year-old teacher cycling from the Malaysian city of Shah Alam to the capital, told AFP on Saturday, calling on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to take action.
The 11-country organisation’s Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) said in a notice on its website on Friday that it had activated “Alert Level 3 for the Southern Asean region” – the highest rung of a four-tiered alert system.
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