A haze is expected to choke Bangkok and the upper parts of the country until Monday next week, as changing atmospheric patterns are trapping PM2.5 dust particles and transboundary pollution from Cambodia over Thailand, according to the Centre for Air Pollution Mitigation.
“Bangkok and some other parts of the country are now under threat from the transboundary haze caused by massive open burnings outside of the country,” Theerapat Prayurasiddhi, CAPM member and permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Tuesday.
According to him, the Pollution Control Department’s (PCD) monitoring equipment has detected over 4,000 hotspots in Cambodia, and the department has already sent a letter to the Asean Secretariat in…
