Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics
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1. Special RFMRC – SEA Reports
National Inter-Agency Round Table Forest and Land Fire Management and Launching Regional Fire Management Resource Center – Southeast Asia (RFMRC – SEA) (Event: July 10, 2017; Update: July 11, 2017)
Regional Round Table Meeting and Consultation “Enhancing Regional Cooperation in Fire Management in Southeast Asia” (Event: June 6-7, 2018; Update June 8, 2018)
2. RFMRC-SEA News Archive
Solving transboundary haze
Jason Loh and Anis Salwana Abdul Malik TRANSBOUNDARY haze affecting Malaysia has been an ongoing problem for decades, and is mainly caused by forest fires due to agricultural techniques known as…