Not to put too fine a point on it, fine dust kills By Nguyen Dang Anh Thi January 21, 2021 | 07:00 am GMT+7 The full stop at the end of this sentence is 1,000 times bigger, which only makes fine dust a silent, deadly assassin. Nguyen Dang Anh Thi So when we talk about fine dust, let us not forget that coal-fired power plants are a major producer of this killer. On learning that China had spent $17.3 billion to clear the air in its capital Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics, I decided to visit the city two years later. Beijing, where the Great Wall of China stands, had been on my go-to list for years. But I kept putting it off because