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A man uses a tree branch to try to extinguish a peatland fire in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, on Oct. 22.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 30, 2026
Fire pollution killed 3,560 people in Indonesia in September, report says
The same month, about 57.8 million people in Indonesia were inhaling unhealthy to hazardous air, according to a new study.
Mongolian Prime Minister Nyam-Osoryn Uchral meets with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo in September.
JAPAN
Oct 29, 2026
Japan to aid wildfire recovery efforts in Mongolia
Takaichi said Japan will offer an aid package featuring plans to provide equipment and help develop human resources for environmental restoration.
Volunteers carry portable oxygen tanks through dense haze to deliver medical assistance to affected residents in the city of Palangkaraya, Indonesia, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 27, 2026
Borneo struggles to breathe as wildfires fill the air with toxic smog
More than 300,000 people in seven provinces were laid low by respiratory tract infections from August to October, Indonesia’s health ministry says.
The Singapore skyline is shrouded in smog due to wildfires raging in Indonesia on Oct. 15.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2026
El Nino fires test limits of Southeast Asia’s cloud-seeding bet
As countries spend more trying to alter erratic rainfall patterns with few lasting results, the question of the payoff rises for such investments.
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Oct 25, 2026
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
At a global conference in smog-hit Malaysia, scientists outlined how the Earth’s natural systems are buckling due to warming.
Mobicom, a KDDI subsidiary, is the dominant mobile phone carrier in Mongolia, serving 1.8 million subscribers in a country of 3.5 million people.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 20, 2026
KDDI subsidiary faces criticism and questions over Mongolian wildfire
Mobicom is also likely to be hit with compensation claims after a company vehicle ignites a blaze in a nature preserve.
Firefighters are deployed near Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, where a fire killed four people and injured 39, in Wainwright, Alberta, on Oct. 18.
WORLD
Oct 19, 2026
Grass fire at Canadian military base kills four and injures 39
An official described the sudden high winds and spread of the fire as an “uncommon, ?rapid” event in which flames advanced 1 km in 30 to 60 seconds.
Motorists are pictured on the road to the Central Business District in Singapore on Friday, as haze from wildfires in Indonesia shrouds the region.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 16, 2026
Singapore probing firms over haze-causing Indonesian fires
The city-state and neighboring Malaysia have been blanketed for weeks by toxic smog from a severe wildfire season in Indonesia.
Motorcyclists in Palangkaraya, Indonesia, on Wednesday amid thick haze from forest and land fires in the region
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 15, 2026
Haze turns Indonesia skies orange and shuts schools in East Timor
Fires burning for months in Indonesia have sent smoke across the region, and East Timor began a three-day school closure prompted by the haze.
People try to extinguish a wildfire in Indonesia's South Kalimantan province on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2026
Singapore can fix Southeast Asia’s haze, if it wants to
The way this is talked about in Singapore, the region’s wealthiest country, the whole situation is an act of God and no one knows who is responsible.
A rescuer and a veterinarian with the YIRARI wildlife foundation carry a rescued orangutan in an area of a palm-oil plantation affected by wildfires, in the village of Laman Satong village, in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province, on Sept. 30.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Oct 11, 2026
Indonesia releases eight orangutans rescued from fires to protected forest
Indonesian authorities and YIARI rescued 46 orangutans from threats of fires between August and Friday.
Rescuers evacuating a mother orangutan and her baby trapped by smoke from forest and land fires in a palm oil plantation area in Pelang village, Ketapang, West Kalimantan, on Sept. 18.
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Oct 9, 2026
Walking through flames: Orangutan rescued in Indonesia fires
Dozens of orangutan have been rescued from wildfires burning across parts of Sumatra and Borneo in recent months.
The KL Tower and other buildings shrouded by haze in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 21. Schools in neighboring Singapore have been closed and respiratory complaints have been skyrocketing, but existing legal frameworks offer little recourse to tackles transboundary air pollution.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2026
Indonesia’s neighbors powerless as smoke from monthlong wildfires shuts schools
Respiratory complaints have been skyrocketing, but existing legal frameworks offer little recourse to tackles transboundary air pollution.
Members of the all-women "The Power of Mama" volunteer firefighting team spray water onto smoldering peatland in the village of Tanjungpura, West Kalimantan, Borneo, on Sept. 26.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 30, 2026
Women fight fires and sexism in Indonesian Borneo
Women are fighting fires in a region where traditional gender roles define women as the main providers of childcare, cooking and cleaning.
A Self-Defense Forces member stands on the deck of the Osumi-class landing ship JS Kunisaki in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, Indonesia on Tuesday. Japan has sent SDF forces to Borneo to help battle large wildfires.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2026
Smog scuppers Japan force helping fight Indonesia wildfires
Indonesia has been battling wildfires for weeks in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, which have blanketed parts of the country in toxic haze.
Members of the Japan Self-Defense Forces are seen on the deck of the Japanese Osumi-class tank landing ship JS Kunisaki, docked at Kijing International Port shrouded in haze from wildfires in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, on Sept. 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Sep 16, 2026
Indonesia’s choking wildfire and haze worsen breathing woes on Borneo
The country is experiencing its most intense fires in 11 years as “super-El Nino” conditions drive up temperatures and cause punishing droughts.
Residents and firefighters work to extinguish an advancing wildfire near Formariz in Zamora province, Spain, on July 29.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 15, 2026
How fighting fires became an all-of-Europe project
Both national governments and the European Union are trying to rapidly increase their capacity to respond to wildfires.
A woman pours water in an area affected by wildfire in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra province, Indonesia, last Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2026
Japanese helicopters to join Indonesia’s wildfires battle this weekend
Indonesia has intensified efforts to tackle wildfires that have been raging for months.
Residents gather by the banks of the Kapuas River as thick smoke and haze shrouds the city of Pontianak in West Kalimantan on Sunday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 6, 2026
How haze from Indonesian fires impacts Southeast Asia
The hazardous smoke has led to more respiratory problems, forced schools to close and has been drifting to neighboring countries.
A firefighter observes the wildfires burning a peatland area next to their orangutan rehabilitation center in Ketapang regency, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 1, 2026
How severe are Indonesia’s wildfires?
Authorities are on high alert as they work to contain the damage and avoid the devastation that hit in 2015, the last time it faced such “super-El Nino” weather conditions.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
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Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
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Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
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