Railing and complaining against transboundary haze may have led to some results (we haven't seen prolonged periods of smoggy days so far this year) — but what if our true respiratory adversary is something under the radar?
The invisible enemy, it seems, is none other than the toxic gases and particles we unknowingly breathe in at bus stops across the island.
Channel NewsAsia revealed the worrying findings of a study done by the students of the National University of Singapore and air pollution expert Dr Erik Velasco. What they found was that commuters could breathe in three-and-a-half times more toxic gases than at ambient levels when waiting at bus stops.