{"id":36476,"date":"2019-08-07T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=36476"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:25:16","slug":"asean-to-place-preventive-measures-against-trans-boundary-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=36476","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN To Place Preventive Measures Against Trans-boundary Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei Darussalam, Aug 7 (NNN-BB NEWS) &#8211; Environment officials from Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, on Tuesday, called for timely actions by relevant national and regional agencies within ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) sub-regional bloc, to prevent land and forest fires and haze pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officials are in Brunei for the 21st Meeting of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Steering Committee on Trans-boundary Haze Pollution (21st MSC). Haze pollution has been a recurring problem for these ASEAN countries, who hope to achieve a haze-free ASEAN by the year 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Trans-boundary haze pollution is a prolonged issue that has been impacting our region for more than two decades,&#8221; said Brunei Minister of Development, Haji Suhaimi, during the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The effect was predominant and has caused serious consequences on the environment and natural resources, health, tourism, transportation, and other socioeconomic activities in several ASEAN countries.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the weather outlook information, presented by ASEAN Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC), drier and warmer conditions in the southern ASEAN region were expected between Aug and Oct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haji Suhaimi said, the haze issue requires continuous and strong commitments to eradicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a media release, MSC countries pledged to remain vigilant and to monitor and step-up their haze preventive efforts, to minimise any possible occurrence of trans-boundary smoke haze during dry weather.&#8211; NNN-BB NEWS  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei Darussalam, Aug 7 (NNN-BB NEWS) &#8211; Environment officials from Brunei, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, on Tuesday, called for timely actions by relevant national and regional agencies within ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) sub-regional bloc, to prevent land and forest fires and haze pollution. The officials are in Brunei [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":36488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}