Haze is expected to choke Bangkok and northern parts of the country until Monday next week, due to changing atmospheric patterns and trans-boundary pollution from Cambodia.
“Bangkok and other parts of the country are now under threat from the trans-boundary haze caused by massive open burning outside the country,” said Theerapat Prayurasiddhi, Centre for Air Pollution Mitigation (CAPM) member and permanent secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office.
Mr Theerapat said the Pollution Control Department’s (PCD) monitoring equipment had detected over 4,000 hotspots in Cambodia, and the department had written to the Asean Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, asking the bloc to look into them.
Over 10,000 hotspots are detected in the Lower Mekong region annually, as farmers engage in open burning to prepare their land for the harvest and re-planting of maize, sugar and rice,…
