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Singapore air quality reaches unhealthy levels across regions

Rank
Ran: 41h
Updated: 6d ago
Closed
Outlets: 7
Regions: 2
Countries: 4
Languages: 2

CNA Singapore · English 28 Sept, 12:10 UTC

The earliest of 6 English reports

Read it also in Melayu (1)

Read at CNA

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: CNA, 28 Sept, 12:10 UTC.
Second country: Malaysia, with Malay Mail.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 29 Sept, 01:24 UTC.
Second region: Americas, with Bloomberg.
Last article: 7 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

14%86%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 14%
Asia-Pacific 6 outlets · 3 countries · 86%

First movers

CNA 28 Sept, 12:10 UTC
The Straits Times +10h 4m
Malay Mail +13h 15m
Tempo +13h 31m
Utusan Malaysia +14h 51m

Last to join

Bloomberg 30 Sept, 03:10 UTC
Free Malaysia Today 29 Sept, 05:03 UTC
Utusan Malaysia 29 Sept, 03:01 UTC
Tempo 29 Sept, 01:40 UTC
Malay Mail 29 Sept, 01:24 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 7 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 7 outlets, 1 state-owned, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 3: Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore. 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 CNA, 28 Sept 2026, 12:10 UTC. First seen 28 Sept 2026, 12:20 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 05:34 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, Singapore. 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 in S’pore: Air quality returns to moderate levels in all regions; Only 1 area with unhealthy air quality as haze clears. 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

29 Sept 2026 284 4.39 6 3 5 3 3.3 → 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 28 Sept, 12:20 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 05:34 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 7 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Bloomberg United States 30 Sept, 04:23 UTC
Singapore, Malaysia Cloaked in Haze Ahead of Key Sporting Events
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- Singapore, Malaysia Cloaked in Haze Ahead of Key Sporting Events 30 Sept, 03:10 UTC

Asia-Pacific 6 outlets

Malay Mail Malaysia 30 Sept, 05:34 UTC
Singapore haze watch: Air quality hits unhealthy levels in four regions; north stays moderate
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- Singapore haze worsens as all five regions enter unhealthy range 29 Sept, 01:24 UTC
The Straits Times Singapore 29 Sept, 22:15 UTC
Haze in S’pore: Air quality improved slightly but PSI in most areas still in unhealthy range
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- Emergency visits for asthma, chronic respiratory disease rise with higher PM2.5 levels: S’pore study 29 Sept, 06:50 UTC
- Haze in Singapore: Air quality in 4 of 5 regions unhealthy, PM2.5 readings elevated across island 28 Sept, 22:14 UTC
Free Malaysia Today Malaysia 29 Sept, 05:03 UTC
Singapore’s air quality worsens, all regions record unhealthy levels
Utusan Malaysia Malaysia 29 Sept, 03:01 UTC
Kualiti udara tidak sihat di Singapura
Tempo Indonesia 29 Sept, 01:40 UTC
Singapore's Air Quality Deteriorates Across All Regions
CNA Singapore 28 Sept, 12:10 UTC
Air quality in two Singapore regions enters unhealthy range
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- Air quality in three Singapore regions in unhealthy range 28 Sept, 12:10 UTC