JAKARTA (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Several provinces in Sumatra and Kalimantan have been blanketed with haze from raging forest fires that worsened in August, causing a surge in people with respiratory ailments such as sore throat and shortness of breath.
A two-year-old who was reported missing after getting lost in a thick oil palm plantation in the Sematan district of southern Sarawak early yesterday afternoon was located alive today, 24 hours after going missing. According to the Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department, Muhammad Rayyan Abdul Qayyum was discovered about three…