Borneo is burning - living on the frontline of Asia's toxic haze
Months of fires in Indonesia have cloaked Southeast Asia in haze and made hundreds of thousands of people sick.
BBC News reports: Months of fires in Indonesia have cloaked Southeast Asia in haze and made hundreds of thousands of people sick.
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