{"id":569,"date":"2005-08-10T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=569"},"modified":"2006-10-08T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T10:23:28","slug":"587-of-malaysia-offers-indonesia-aid-and-what-malaysians-should-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"[567] Of Malaysia offers Indonesia aid and what Malaysians should do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid this noxious state, Malaysia has finally offered aid to Indonesia. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/KLR71146.htm\">According to Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Malaysia offered on Wednesday to help neighbour Indonesia extinguish forest fires that have smothered Kuala Lumpur in a thick pall of smoke for a week, aggravating traffic and health conditions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time and Indonesia better accept it.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, there was a short rain just now here in Kuala Lumpur. Unfortunately, the rain did little to relieve the worsening condition. The <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/haze\">haze<\/a> has been relentless.<\/p>\n<p>And while the government finally seems to be crawling in the right direction, we as Malaysians should help out. Instead of moaning how bad the situation really is, start out by not driving and take up public transportation instead. Or at least carpool. If you are whinning but still drive an SUV even to get to the nearest convenience store, just stfu because you have just forfeited your right to bitch.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing we could do is to inform our reps of <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=563\">ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution<\/a> and how Indonesia has yet to ratify it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid this noxious state, Malaysia has finally offered aid to Indonesia. According to Reuters: KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Malaysia offered on Wednesday to help neighbour Indonesia extinguish forest fires that have smothered Kuala Lumpur in a thick pall of smoke for a week, aggravating traffic and health conditions. It&#8217;s about time and Indonesia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}