Category Archives: Asia

China Strengthens Monitoring as Beijing’s Air Pollution Persists

Posted on February 23, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Beijing’s air pollution reached eight times World Health Organization-recommended levels as smog in the city persisted for a fourth day, prompting China’s environmental protection regulator to send inspection teams to the capital and surrounding areas. The concentration of PM2.5, fine … Continue reading →

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India’s Air Pollution Triggers Comparisons with China

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

In the Indian capital, New Delhi, levels of air pollution hit a new high this winter, triggering concerns about its adverse impact on public health, and particularly on children. Environmentalists compare New Delhi with Beijing, the other major city also … Continue reading →

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Air pollution monitors to be installed in Yangon

Posted on February 21, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Air pollution monitoring equipment costing K600 million (about US$608,000) will be installed throughout Yangon next month, the municipal administration said on February 19. “The equipment will be installed at fifteen locations,” said U Aung Myint Maw, the deputy head of … Continue reading →

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Air pollution in Beijing has made the city ‘almost uninhabitable for human beings’

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Severe pollution in Beijing has made the Chinese capital ‘barely suitable’ for living, according to an official report, as the world’s second-largest economy tries to reduce often hazardous levels of smog caused by decades of rapid growth. The research released … Continue reading →

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Air pollution in Riau city soars to hazardous levels

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Air pollution in Dumai, the epicentre of last year’s extreme haze, soared to very hazardous levels on Tuesday morning, as the dry season – and open burning – started much earlier this year. The Air Pollutant Index in Dumai, Riau … Continue reading →

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‘Hazardous’ air pollution in New Delhi now seen to rival Beijing’s

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Think twice before taking a deep breath in New Delhi, where worsening air pollution has drawn comparisons with Beijing, the world’s pollution poster child. On bad days in India’s congested capital, the air is so murky it slows traffic to … Continue reading →

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Pollution increasing lung cancer in Indian women

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

In a worrying trend noted by oncologists, lung cancer is increasing rapidly among Indian women. The foremost reason, much against popular perception, is not smoking but environmental pollution. India has just slipped 32 ranks in the global Environment Performance Index … Continue reading →

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Air quality drops, health at risk

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Respro® UK Ltd

Residents living in a number of regions in Riau province have been reminded of the dangers of inhaling haze from forest and peat fires, which has caused air quality to drop. In Dumai city, the quality of air on Tuesday … Continue reading →

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