Air pollution hits record high in Singapore Wildfires burning on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have sent a choking haze over Singapore, pushing air pollution to record levels.At 12:00 p.m. local time Friday, the Pollution Standards Index — a scale of 0 to 500 to measure air pollution — hit 401 in Singapore, the highest in the country's history. Before this week, the record had been 226, set in 1997. By 10:00 p.m. Friday, the pollution ...
June 22, 2013 - NBC NEWS
Air Pollution Hits Record Levels in Singapore Wildfires burning on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have sent a choking haze over Singapore, pushing air pollution to record levels.
June 21, 2013 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News
FLU NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Indonesia, H7N9 reassortment, US vaccine donation program Indonesian child dies from H5N1 infection Indonesia's health ministry today announced that a 2-year-old boy died from an H5N1 avian influenza infection, according to a translated statement posted on FluTrackers, an infectious disease message board.
June 21, 2013 - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
Barack Obama in Sofia Echo The American people stand by the Indonesian people in this difficult time and the US government stands ready to help the Indonesian government respond to and recover from these outrageous attacks,Obama said.
Imam Samudra in Sydney Morning Herald Fellow bomb planner Imam Samudra said he would welcome being executed, but did not think about it as "I don't respect Indonesian law".
Hassan Wirajuda in The Age Mr Wirayuda said that when Australia granted asylum to the 43 independence supporters who fled by canoe in 2006 it "touched the very nerve of Indonesian politics".