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35 relations: Agence France-Presse, Air pollution, ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, BBC News, Borneo, Brunei, Dry season, Elaeis, Excavator, Haze, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, Mire, Peat, Philippines, Pollutant Standards Index, Pulpwood, Riau, Singapore, Slash-and-burn, South Sumatra, Sulfur, Sumatra, Thailand, The Straits Times, Tropical forest, 1997 Indonesian forest fires, 1997 Southeast Asian haze, 2005 Malaysian haze, 2006 Southeast Asian haze, 2009 Southeast Asian haze, 2013 Southeast Asian haze, 2015 Southeast Asian haze, 2016 Southeast Asian haze.
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.
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Air pollution
Air pollution occurs when harmful or excessive quantities of substances including gases, particulates, and biological molecules are introduced into Earth's atmosphere.
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ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution
The ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution is a legally binding environmental agreement signed in 2002 by the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to reduce haze pollution in Southeast Asia.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.
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Borneo
Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.
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Brunei
Brunei, officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi), is a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia.
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Dry season
The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.
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Elaeis
Elaeis is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms.
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Excavator
Excavators (hydraulic) are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house".
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Haze
Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon in which dust, smoke, and other dry particulates obscure the clarity of the sky.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
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Kalimantan
Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.
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Mire
A mire is a wetland type, dominated by living, peat-forming plants.
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Peat
Peat, also called turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter that is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs.
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Philippines
The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Pollutant Standards Index
The Pollutant Standards Index, or PSI, is a type of air quality index, which is a number used to indicate the level of pollutants in air.
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Pulpwood
Pulpwood refers to timber with the principal use of making wood pulp for paper production.
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Riau
Riau (Jawi), is a province of Indonesia.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.
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Slash-and-burn
Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire–fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden.
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South Sumatra
South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan) is a province of Indonesia.
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Sulfur
Sulfur or sulphur is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16.
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Sumatra
Sumatra is an Indonesian island in Southeast Asia that is part of the Sunda Islands.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.
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The Straits Times
The Straits Times is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore currently owned by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH).
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Tropical forest
Tropical forests are forested landscapes in tropical regions: i.e. land areas approximately bounded by the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, but possibly affected by other factors such as prevailing winds.
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1997 Indonesian forest fires
The 1997 group of forest fires in Indonesia that lasted well into 1998 were probably among the two or three, if not the largest, forest fires group in the last two centuries of recorded history.
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1997 Southeast Asian haze
The 1997 Southeast Asian haze was a large-scale air quality disaster that occurred during the second half of 1997, its after-effects causing widespread atmospheric visibility and health problems within Southeast Asia.
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2005 Malaysian haze
Haze is caused by "hotspots" (zones with high temperature levels as seen via satellite imagery) in Malaysia and Indonesia.
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2006 Southeast Asian haze
The 2006 Southeast Asian haze event was caused by continued uncontrolled burning from "slash and burn" cultivation in Indonesia, and affected several countries in the Southeast Asian region and beyond, such as Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, and as far as Saipan; the effects of the haze may have spread to South Korea.
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2009 Southeast Asian haze
The 2009 Southeast Asian haze was an episode of large scale air pollution primarily caused by slash and burn practices used to clear land for agricultural purposes in Sumatra, Indonesia.
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2013 Southeast Asian haze
The 2013 Southeast Asian haze was a haze crisis that affected several countries in Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Southern Thailand, mainly during June and July 2013.
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2015 Southeast Asian haze
The 2015 Southeast Asian haze was an air pollution crisis affecting several countries in Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Indonesia (especially its islands of Sumatra and Borneo), Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines.
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2016 Southeast Asian haze
The 2016 Southeast Asian haze is an air pollution crisis affecting several countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asian_haze
