The haze has returned, this time from the peat land fires in Riau, North Sumatra and Jambi, spreading as far away as Singapore and Malaysia. It is the worst hazing since 2006.

A number of flights to Sumatra were cancelled. About 20,000 residents of Pekanbaru, Riau, have come down with respiratory illnesses. In Malaysia, the air pollution index (API) reached 750-seven and a half times above the safe level. In Singapore, the losses as a result of