Category Archives: Asia

Beijing pollution monitored with kite-mounted sensors

Beijing is notorious for its grey-brownish smog days and poor air quality. Two students from the US are trying to raise awareness by conducting workshops for the local residents on how to build sensors small enough to be mounted on … Continue reading

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Singapore to Achieve Cleaner Air by 2020

Singapore is aiming for cleaner air and has set 2020 as the deadline to make this happen. To work towards this, it has adopted World Health Organization guidelines on air quality as a target. Until now, Singapore had used these … Continue reading

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Mild air pollution to continue

Mild air pollution is expected to continue shrouding the capital for the next two days due to the weather, authorities said. Low pressure and steady airflow will prevent the city’s pollution levels from decreasing. From 9 am Saturday to 9 … Continue reading

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Dhaka is named the least liveable city

Dhaka has been rated as the least liveable location among the 140 cities surveyed by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The Global Livability Survey released yesterday found the Bangladeshi capital downgrading one step from the rank of second worst city to … Continue reading

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Air quality over Penang at moderate level

After touching the unhealthy level, the air quality in Penang has improved and is now hovering just below the mark in one area and lower in other parts. According to the Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre’s website, 310 hotspots were detected … Continue reading

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El Niño exerts a deadly effect

An unexpected link between the climate event El Niño and a rise in the number of deaths in southeast Asia is revealed in research published today in Nature Climate Change. El Niño events, which displace warm water into the eastern … Continue reading

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Hong Kong battles to improve air quality

As Hong Kong releases its latest economic growth figures, worries are increasing that its success has been bought at the price of heavy pollution which is holding back its appeal as a place to do business. For many Hong Kong … Continue reading

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Hong Kong’s Dirty Air is Worst in Two Years

Roadside air-pollution levels hit a two-year high in some parts of Hong Kong this week, obscuring the city’s vistas in a sea of white haze and prompting the government to warn the young, the elderly and people with heart or … Continue reading

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