{"id":43138,"date":"2019-09-20T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43138"},"modified":"2019-09-20T15:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T07:08:51","slug":"ministry-updates-business-councils-on-measures-taken-to-tackle-haze-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43138","title":{"rendered":"Ministry updates business councils on measures taken to tackle haze in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Ministry of International Trade And Industry (MITI) has taken measures to advise and update international business councils regarding the government&#8217;s action in tackling the haze problem in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its deputy minister Dr Ong Kian Ming reiterated that the government has been conducting cloud seeding as short term measures to combat the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;While for the long term, we are planning to have stricter enforcement on&nbsp;Malaysian companies&nbsp;responsible for causing&nbsp;the haze, including&nbsp;having&nbsp;our own transboundary haze pollution enactment, just like what Singapore has already instituted,&#8221; said Ong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, the ministry he said has not received&nbsp;a direct complaint from the business councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, MITI will continue to monitor the situation and give feedback to councils\u00a0and other stakeholders, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Ministry of International Trade And Industry (MITI) has taken measures to advise and update international business councils regarding the government&#8217;s action in tackling the haze problem in the country. Its deputy minister Dr Ong Kian Ming reiterated that the government has been conducting cloud seeding as short term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":36555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318,297],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43138"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}