The World Health Organisation (WHO) says air pollution in major South East Asian and Chinese cities is among the worst in the world, killing about half-a-million people every year while the global figure is an estimated 8/10 million deaths.
The ‘Asian Brown Cloud’ has been renamed ‘Brown Haze’. It can travel halfway round the globe in a week, forwarn scientists. The brown haze over the Indian ocean has become an annual feature this time of the year.
