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A shrouded Kuala Lumpur in early August 2026. MetMalaysia's director-general, Mohd Hisham Mohd Anip, said this was the result of a 'cross-border haze phenomenon from Kalimantan'. — AFP

ON the morning of Aug 11, 2026, residents in Serian, a town 39km from the Tebedu checkpoint on the Malaysian-Indonesian border, woke up to a smoke-filled sky.

The haze is back, along with the acrid odour created from all the dangerous elements that comprise it.

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