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Article: Fire threat still smouldering in ASEAN.(Association of South East Asian Nations)
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- Business Asia
- Article date:
- June 29, 1998
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Singapore - South East Asia cannot afford to let its guard down in the fight against debilitating smog and forest fires amid the region's economic crisis, a Singapore minister has warned.
"ASEAN cannot afford another fire and haze disaster. A repeat of this disaster will surely aggravate the already bad regional economic situation," said Environment Minister Mr Yeo Cheow Tong. He told a meeting of colleagues from ASEAN, the Association of South East Asian Nations, that although heavy rains had put out fires in East ...