| Associated Press: Smoke and ash from land-clearing fires in Indonesia blanketed a large swath of the country's west on Monday, sending air quality levels plummeting there and in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia, officials said. The smoke was shrouding an estimated 215,000 square miles of land on Indonesia's islands of Sumatra and Borneo, forcing many residents to wear protective masks and delaying flights, officials and media reports said. "The haze has persisted for a whole week," ... |
