- New fires in Indonesia bring fresh haze fears

  • 24/02/1998

  • Business Line (New Delhi)

About 1,000 forest fires were burning in Indonesia's East Kalimanthan province on Tuesday, heightening fears that South-East Asia could be choked by a haze disaster as bad as last year. Environmentalists said the fires on the Indonesian side of Borneo island were mainly confined to East Kalimantan, while other blazes in coastal peat forest on Sumatra had sent fresh haze over Singapore.