Haze returns to Malaysian towns<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Smoke from forest fires on Indonesia's Sumatra island
\nhit two coastal towns in Malaysia on Thursday and turned the air
\nquality "unhealthy", according to official data.<\/p>\n
Last month a state of emergency was declared in the two
\naffected towns, Kuala Selangor and Port Klang, when they bore the
\nbrunt of a haze crisis that sent pollution levels there soaring
\nto extremely hazardous levels.<\/p>\n
The air pollution index in Kuala Selangor, west of the capital
\nKuala Lumpur, rose to 125 on Thursday after a brief respite since
\nSunday when it recorded 104, the environment department said.<\/p>\n
Further south in Port Klang, Malaysia's biggest port where
\noperations ground to a halt in last month's haze, the index
\nreached 102. An "unhealthy" reading is anything between 101 and
\n200.<\/p>\n
Nationwide, including in the capital Kuala Lumpur, in southern
\nJohor state and in Sabah and Sarawak states on Borneo island, air
\nquality remained moderate.<\/p>\n
The environment department said satellite images showed that
\nthe number of "hot spots" in Sumatra rose to 100 from 78 last
\nSunday. There were 488 hot spots in Indonesia's Kalimantan on
\nBorneo, up from 391. -- AFP<\/p>",
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