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by lostlogin 2170 days ago
> Dr. Lam explained that “in places like Singapore, we want to keep the windows open as much as possible”

I haven’t spent a lot of time in Singapore but the time I spent there had visibility of about 50m from the burning of scrub/jungle in Malaysia and the air quality was abysmal.

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It’s unusual for there to be haze. When there odds have it’s awful but it only happened twice, once bad and over mild, in the 4 years I lived there.
Thanks, things must have improved as its 10+ years since I was there and it didn't seem an unusual event then.
They started suing the companies responsible after the 2014 (?) Indonesian forest fires. Seems to have been effective.