Sharon Ling Pi Chen
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Home study offers relief (opens the original)
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KUCHING: Year Six pupil Asyraf Saibi diligently takes notes as he sits in front of a laptop at home. The SK Matang pupil is one of 238,303 students in 14 districts across Sarawak undergoing home-based teaching and learning (PdPR) this week as their schools are closed due to the haze. His father Saibi Gi welcomed the implementation of PdPR to ensure students can continue learning without leaving the house and being exposed to the haze. “To prepare for PdPR, I made sure we had a laptop and Interne
Drying dam prompts S’wak cloud seeding (opens the original)
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KUCHING: The cloud seeding operation in Sarawak resumed with a focus on inducing rain over the reservoir of the Batang Ai hydroelectric dam in the Sri Aman division as the water has dropped to a critical level. “It has reached emergency level 3,” Sarawak Energy’s vice-president for hydro, Jonny Wong Kwei Ji, told reporters as he witnessed the pre-flight preparations for the operation at the Royal Malaysian Air Force base here yesterday.
Serian folk brave severe haze to make a living (opens the original)
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SERIAN: Many people in this market town who eke out a living every day are unfazed by the declaration of a state of emergency in Serian Division by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong late Friday after the air quality crept into the “hazardous” category. The air pollutant index (API) was 518 on Friday afternoon in Serian Division, which has a population of 114,000 and spans 2,819 sq km. Serian town is only 38km from the Kalimantan border.
Cloud-seeding exercises begin (opens the original)
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KUCHING: Cloud-seeding exercises have started in Sarawak, Kedah and Perlis, targeting hydroelectric reservoirs and water catchment areas across the states. In Sarawak, Deputy Premier Datuk Douglas Uggah said the operation on the first day was aimed at inducing rain over the Batang Ai dam in Sri Aman division and the larger Bakun and Murum dams in the northern part of the state. Thirteen water catchment areas in five administrative divisions – Samarahan, Sri Aman, Betong, Kapit and Limbang – will
Sarawak in haze, water crisis (opens the original)
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SIMUNJAN: Even as Sarawak battles extreme haze conditions, the prolonged dry spell has led to critically low water reserves in parts of the state. At the water treatment plant here, the reservoir’s level has dropped to less than a metre after four months with hardly any rain. Sarawak Rural Water Supply Department (JBALB) assistant engineer Shazwani Jamil said the plant’s water source comes mainly from nearby Gunung Ngeli, but lack of rain since April had caused the reservoir to slowly dry up. “E
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