
Grace Fu
Singaporean politician
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Singapore votes to toughen haze law as Indonesia relations sour
Singapore's parliament voted on 4 November to raise haze fines tenfold and allow courts to try absent defendants, while wildfires in Indonesia keep smoke over the city-state and a gas dispute strains relations.

- Oct 17
Indonesian forest fires push Southeast Asia haze to highest ASEAN alert level
On Thursday, 15 October, four men died fighting forest fires in East Java, as smoke from Indonesia's blazes pushed the region to the highest level on the ASEAN haze alert scale.