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ANTIDOTE The worst haze on record was in Sarawak, in 1997. Even Sarawak's famously wealthy chief minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, could not buy a breath of fresh air, so he went abroad on "research". The Air Pollution Index (API) in Kuching that September was 860, higher than the 750 recorded in Muar on June 23.

We have shared memories of motorcyclists with towels around their faces, or of drivers going at snail's pace, with headlights on at noon, and windscreen wipers going, furiously and uselessly. Malaysians without access to private jets and Canadian mansions suffered, then as now, from asthma, choking, and red eyes...

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