'Very dangerous': Timor-Leste shuts schools over Indonesia haze

Channel News Asia·October 15, 2026 at 6:46 AM+3

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The fires have burned through hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest and plantations in Indonesia, and caused air pollution to surge locally, as well as in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Timor-Leste.

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