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Wildfire haze makes Southeast Asian capitals world's most polluted

Rank
Ran: 1m
Updated: 4d ago
Closed
Outlets: 2
Regions: 2
Countries: 2
Languages: 1

Daily Sabah Turkey · English 1 Oct, 05:08 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

The only language so far · English, 2 reports

Read at Daily Sabah

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Daily Sabah, 1 Oct, 05:08 UTC.
Second country: Vietnam, with VnExpress International.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with VnExpress International.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 1 Oct, 05:08 UTC.
Last article: 2 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 50%

First movers

Daily Sabah 1 Oct, 05:08 UTC
VnExpress International +45m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Haze returns to Malaysia, over 30 areas record unhealthy air quality, 29 Sept to 1 Oct 2026, 5 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 2 outlets in 2 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 2 outlets, 1 state-owned, 1 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 1: Vietnam. Middle East 1: Turkey. 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.
Timeline: Earliest article Daily Sabah, 1 Oct 2026, 05:08 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 06:10 UTC. Last seen 1 Oct 2026, 05:53 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 International. 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: Continues Haze returns to Malaysia, over 30 areas record unhealthy air quality. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 06:10 UTC · Updated 05:53 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 2 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

VnExpress International Vietnam 1 Oct, 05:53 UTC
Wildfize haze pushes two Southeast Asian capitals into world's most polluted cities

Middle East 1 outlet

Daily Sabah Turkey 1 Oct, 05:08 UTC
Kuala Lumpur, Singapore rank among world’s most polluted cities