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The culprit behind the smog-belching blazes raging in Indonesia are usually illegal fires set to clear land for farming. (AFP/File / ADEK BERRY)
This aerial picture shows a flooded area in Thailand's northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani on September 14, 2019. Photo: Krit Phromsakla Na Sakolnakorn/AFP
Yanghee Lee, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar. Photo: EPA
The fires -- usually started by illegal burning to clear land for farming -- have unleashed choking haze across Southeast Asia. Photo: AFP
Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) shakes hands with Professor Pericles Lewis (C), president of Yale-NUS college after officiating the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the Yale-NUS College while other officials look on in SIngapore on August 27, 2013. Yale-NUS College is Singapore's first liberal arts college with a full residential program, with the first cohort comprising 155 students. (AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN)
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
Rohingya children play at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on September 13, 2019. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
Philippines Police Major General Guillermo Eleazar (2nd R) gestures during a press conference with other officials and three (back, orange shirts) of 277 Chinese arrested for "illegal online operations" (AFP Photo/Ted ALJIBE)
This handout picture taken on September 17, 2019 and released by Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation shows orangutans at the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre inNyaru Menten, central Kalimantan. Photo: AFP
A group of young women make their way along a street in Jakarta on Sept 19, 2019. Indonesia is set to vote on a plan to outlaw gay and pre-marital sex while beefing up its blasphemy laws in a shakeup fuelled by religious conservatism and slammed by rights groups Thursday. Photo: AFP

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