KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia closed schools in several states and the capital Kuala Lumpur on Monday due to choking smoke from Indonesian slash-and-burn farming that has smothered much of Southeast Asia in smog for weeks.
Malaysia has repeatedly ordered students to stay home as a health precaution as the current smog problem — an annual dry-season occurrence — has become one of the worst in years, exacerbated by tinder-dry conditions from the El Nino weather phenomenon.
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