Asia-Pacific / Malaysia · Environment

Haze returns to Malaysia, over 30 areas record unhealthy air quality

Rank
Ran: 46h
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 5
Regions: 1
Countries: 3
Languages: 2

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 29 Sept, 00:50 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Melayu (1)

Read at Free Malaysia Today

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Free Malaysia Today, 29 Sept, 00:50 UTC.
Second country: Hong Kong, with South China Morning Post.
Last article: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 3 countries · 100%

First movers

Free Malaysia Today 29 Sept, 00:50 UTC
Malay Mail +1h 27m
Utusan Malaysia +26h 21m
South China Morning Post +35h 53m
GMA News +45h 29m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 3 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 3: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Malay.
Timeline: Earliest article Free Malaysia Today, 29 Sept 2026, 00:50 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 02:00 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 00:35 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Malaysia. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Haze eases as unhealthy air quality falls to eight areas, Johan Setia still worst hit; Wildfire haze makes Southeast Asian capitals world's most polluted. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

30 Sept 2026 307 4.11 5 3 5 3 4.0

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Started 29 Sept, 02:00 UTC · Updated 1 Oct, 00:35 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

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Asia-Pacific 5 outlets

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 1 Oct, 00:35 UTC
Haze eases with unhealthy air quality in just 8 areas
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- Haze worsens in West Malaysia, parts of Klang Valley worst hit 30 Sept, 03:25 UTC
- Unhealthy air quality as haze returns to Klang Valley 29 Sept, 00:50 UTC
GMA News Philippines 30 Sept, 22:20 UTC
Haze pushes Kuala Lumpur, Singapore into world's most polluted cities
South China Morning Post Hong Kong 30 Sept, 12:43 UTC
Kuala Lumpur is world’s most polluted city due to haze, Singapore third, index shows
Malay Mail Malaysia 30 Sept, 09:58 UTC
Johan Setia reports highest unhealthy API level at 166, twenty areas in total experiencing bad air
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Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 30 Sept, 03:11 UTC
Johan Setia, Cheras antara 33 kawasan rekod IPU tidak sihat