Official: Asian Games to Boost Indonesia's War on Forest Fires

Indonesia's choking annual haze will be limited this year by the pressure of hosting the Asian Games and a new approach to preventing forest fires, a senior official said on Tuesday. Every dry season — usually from June until October — large parts of Southeast Asia are shrouded in pollution caused by forest fires in Indonesia, many set deliberately to clear land for pulp and paper and palm oil plantations. Indonesia's government switched focus from containment to prevention after a particularly...