Chiang Mai launches campaign to reduce haze pollution

CHIANG MAI, 8 March 2012 (NNT) – Minister to the Thai Prime Minister’s Office Worawat Auapinyakul has joined hands with Chiang Mai Governor M.L. Panadda Diskul in a walk rally campaign, which aims to eradicate forest burning within one week.

At the Tha Pae Gate Plaza in Chiang Mai province, Mr. Worawat, M.L. Panadda, government officials, students, village health volunteers and thousands of local residents yesterday voluntarily participated in a walk rally activity under the No Burn campaign, of which the objective is to resolve the haze situation in the Northern provinces. The campaign is part of the urgent short-term solutions to the haze problem as well as a measure to revive victims of the haze pollution in the Northern region of Thailand.

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