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Singapore urged Indonesia to take “urgent measures” to tackle its forest fires as severe air pollution blown from Sumatra island choked the densely populated city-state. The city-state’s Pollutant Standards Index soared to 152 at 9:00pm (1300 GMT) June 17, well past the officially designated “unhealthy” threshold of 100. It was Singapore’s worst haze reading since 2006 when the PSI reached 150, statistics from the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources showed. Parts of neighboring Malaysia were also suffering from the smoky haze, a recurring problem Southeast Asian governments have failed to solve despite repeated calls for action.
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