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Tear gas, 'live rounds' fired as tens of thousands protest in Hong Kong
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/10/2019
» HONG KONG: Police shot tear gas volleys at protesters as simultaneous rallies raged across Hong Kong, including a march through the city centre, hours after celebrations for a holiday marking 70 years of Communist rule in China began in Beijing.
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Malaysia to fight smog with cloud seeding
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/09/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia plans to carry out cloud seeding in central Selangor state and parts of the peninsular to fight the haze sweeping the region, the Star newspaper reported, citing government deputy minister Isnaraissah Munirah Majilis.
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Indonesia fights fires in palm-growing regions as drought looms
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/07/2019
» JAKARTA: Indonesia is stepping up efforts to prevent a repeat of haze that blanketed much of Southeast Asia four years ago by deploying thousands of firefighters and emergency response teams in its main palm oil- and rubber-producing regions.
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China fossil fuel deadline accelerates electric car race
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/09/2017
» China will set a deadline for automakers to end sales of fossil-fuel-powered vehicles, becoming the biggest market to do so in a move that will accelerate the push into the electric car market led by companies including BYD Co. and BAIC Motor Corp.
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French motoring icon 'deux chevaux' goes electric
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 03/02/2016
» Paris: Post-war France had a love affair with it, driving it across cities, through country roads and to the beach.
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World’s oldest rainforests burn as Jokowi scales back promises
Bloomberg News, Published on 02/10/2015
» JAKARTA -- Having promised to extinguish forest fires in Riau in western Indonesia by early October, President Joko Widodo jetted into Sumatra island last week for a progress check. The smoke was so thick his plane couldn’t land, forcing him back to the capital.
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Singapore shuts schools, events as haze worsens
Bloomberg News, Published on 25/09/2015
» SINGAPORE - Schools were shut and some outdoor events suspended on Friday as the city-state’s air quality slid into the hazardous range for the first time this year, raising concerns that this will hurt the tourism and retail sectors.
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'Hazardous' Indonesian haze taints Singapore air quality
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/09/2015
» JAKARTA — Smog caused by slash-and-burn agriculture in Indonesia is continuing to foul air quality as far away as Singapore, with readings in some parts of Sumatra island deemed “very unhealthy.”
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Shanghai airport cancelling flights
Bloomberg News, Published on 29/07/2014
» Shanghai’s international airport announced 30 flight cancellations today as the Chinese military began exercises off the coast of the East China Sea.
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London 'more polluted' than Beijing
Bloomberg News, Published on 31/05/2014
» Levels of the harmful air pollutant nitrogen dioxide at a city-centre monitoring station are the highest in Europe. Concentrations are greater even than in Beijing, where expatriates have dubbed the city's smog the "airpocalypse."
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