{
  "id": 6829668,
  "title": "Up in smoke: how Southeast Asia bungled its haze response",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/up-in-smoke-how-southeast-asia-bungled-its-haze-response",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-12T00:00:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3367217/smoke-how-southeast-asia-bungled-its-haze-response"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Dr Asma Zafirah doesn’t need satellite images to know when Kalimantan is burning. She sees it in the watery eyes and laboured breaths of the patients at her clinic in Sarawak, and the children who are kept home from school to protect them from the toxic air. Southeast Asia’s transboundary haze crisis was meant to have been brought under control six years ago. But Borneo is once again belching out…",
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      {
        "outlet": "VnExpress International",
        "title": "10 busiest airports in Southeast Asia in September",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/10-busiest-airports-in-southeast-asia-in-september",
        "published": "2026-09-11T23:00:53.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Southeast Asia's first Moutai House opens at Fullerton Waterboat House in October",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/southeast-asias-first-moutai-house-opens-at-fullerton-waterboat-house",
        "published": "2026-09-12T04:00:06.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}