Readers may wish to know that the some senior Indonesian environment officers have heavy stakes in the logging companies. These companies are culprits of illegal logging and the forest-burning tactics.

I think better to set somesort of penalty on Indonesia if the haze reaches Singapore and proven that it was man made. I dont want us to get infected with carcinogenics, or heavy carbon, just because some rich indonesian biznessman wanna buy a new ferrari. I think, with current technology, we can tell if the haze was natural or man made. If it was man made, then we should hit Indonesia with economic sanctions , travel restrictions on responsible ministers or freeze the assets of the companies involved..... this will surely work.

Ricky may wish to know that the bulk (90%?) of the haze is the result of billion dollar plantation companies clearing large tracts of land to expand their palm oil production. In the 60s, 70s and 80s, we never had problems with haze. Why? Because at that time, only small time farmers were using slash-and-burn method. It is only when big corporations get into the act and adopted this cheap method, we get this haze problem.