SINGAPORE — As the haze in Singapore worsens today, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong has declared that “the Singapore Child is being suffocated” in a riposte to an Indonesian minister’s comments yesterday that Singaporeans are “behaving like a child” in response to the haze. In his latest Facebook post as “MParader”, Mr Goh asked: “The Singapore Child is being suffocated. How can he not scream? “Former Malaysian PM Abdullah Badawi used to say that Malaysians and Singaporeans are like neighbours living in a pair of semi-detached houses. What each does will affect the other. So we have to be considerate in our behavior like not putting on the TV too loudly or burning our garden refuse openly if the smoke will enter our neighbour’s house. “Indonesia does not share a semi-detached house with Malaysia or Singapore. But its detached bungalow is in the same housing estate. So Badawi’s analogy of neighborly behavior still applies.” But acknowledging that there is little that can be done in the short term, the former Prime Minister concluded his note: “But as of now, the Singapore Child better learn to survive the tortuous smog and haze. ---gct” Mr Goh wrote his latest post this afternoon. The National Environment Agency’s three-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hit a new high of 401 at 1pm.