Thailand News Today | Bangkok air pollution, 28 Covid cases, Lao dam protest | December 14

Bangkok starts the new week with ‘unhealthy’ air quality

Waking up in Bangkok today you would have been surprised that the sun had disappeared to be replaced by a grey sky and views across the city limited to less than a kilometre.

Across the city the air quality readings for most of the day have been aver the 150 mark which is registers as ‘unhealthy’ in the international Air Quality Index. The weather forecast for the next few days suggests that the air pollution situation won’t improve much.

Since the wet season monsoon is over for the year, the north-easterly airflow across Bangkok now brings down the smoke and haze from the north which is caused by burn offs of rice and sugar cane plantations… a situation that causes devastating air quality problems for the central and northern Thai regions each year, usually from around December until around April.

Majority says school…