MIRI: Jolted by the haze and forest fire scare here during the past week, Sarawak will invoke a tough law to punish landowners for open burning even though they may not have started the fires on their land.
The Sarawak Natural Resources and Environment Board (NREB) would invoke Sect 30C of the NREB Ordinance whereby landowners would be deemed criminally liable for all open burning on their land even if the fires were started by outsiders.
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