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When I posted about the haze on Monday, the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) index was around 100. 

Here’s where we are two days later.



Actually, that’s outdated. An hour later it hit 321.

Here’s what it looked like outside the Marina Bay Sands where I’ve been working this week.



Another thing I should clarify too: the fires in Sumatra that are the cause of all this are man-made. It’s the result of farmers and plantation owners in Sumatra burning crops to clear land in the dry season – which, incidentally, is not legal in Indonesia.

This has managed to spark an international row between Singapore and Indonesia. It goes like this:

Singapore: “Slash and burn is illegal in yr country so why aren’t you enforcing it?”

Indonesia: “Don’t blame us. Your companies do it too, and some of them own the plantations being burned, so don’t be so hypocritical.”

What fun!

I still have two more days before I go home.

Smoke if you got ‘em,

This is dF


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