Thailand is suffering from a continuing increase in harmful particulate matter dust (especially PM2.5) and other air ...

Water tests from the Kok and Sai rivers near Thailand’s border with Myanmar have revealed elevated arsenic levels, leading ...

A sprawling new mine is gouged into the lush rolling hills of northeast Myanmar, where civil war has weakened the government’s already feeble writ, ...

Bangkok is the most visited city in the world, receiving 32 million visitors in 2024, all mingling together with its 17.4 million permanent residents – so with all these people, how to you navigate ...

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Over the following years, the city of Beijing promoted alternatives to smog-producing coal and shut down more than 2,600 manufacturing companies associated with pollution, among other measures.

The World Bank estimates that air pollution – which returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 – costs Vietnam more than US$13 billion (S$17.6 billion) every year, equivalent to almost 3 per cent ...

The centre reported the average PM2.5 levels throughout the city on Tuesday at 44.9 micrograms per cubic metre (µg/m³), well above the country’s standard of 37.5 µg/m³ over a three-hour ...

Bangkok aims for pollution control status to tackle rising PM2.5, ... including prohibiting non-registered six-wheeled trucks or larger from entering low-emission zones within the city’s ...

The air quality in all of Bangkok’s metropolitan areas exceeded safety standards on Saturday morning, the BMA’s Air Quality Information Centre said. The centre reported the average PM2.5 levels ...

It was the second-worst in South-east Asia after Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. “The air pollution today is worse than yesterday,” Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said in a statement on Jan 24.

Bangkok: Air pollution in the Thai capital forced more than 350 schools to close on Friday, city authorities said, the highest number in five years.