关键报道：马来西亚人口第二多的州州长呼吁召开地区领导人紧急会议，以应对印度尼西亚森林大火引发的雾霾问题；吉隆坡正遭受全球最严重的空气污染。
The head of Malaysia’s second-most populous state called for an emergency meeting of regional leaders to tackle haze from Indonesia’s wildfires, as Kuala Lumpur chokes under the world’s worst air pollution.
“东南亚国家联盟需要发挥更积极的作用，共同召开紧急会议来应对这一危机，”柔佛州州长奥恩·哈菲兹·加齐周三晚在脸书上写道。他表示自己已就该问题与印度尼西亚总领事进行了沟通，但未提及会议的具体时间。
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations “needs to play a more active role and hold an emergency meeting to address this crisis collectively,” Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz Ghazi wrote in a Facebook post late Wednesday. The state leader said he had raised the matter with Indonesia’s consul general, without saying when that meeting took place.
根据柔佛州教育部门的数据，由于雾霾影响，该州所有学校已停课至周末，约61.7万名学生受到影响。IQAir的数据显示，截至周四下午，吉隆坡的空气质量已处于“非常不健康”的水平；新加坡也位列全球污染最严重的城市前十名之列。
Johor, which sits on the Malay Peninsula south of the nation’s capital, closed schools through the end of the week because of the haze, affecting about 617,000 students, according to the state education ministry. Air quality in Kuala Lumpur was in the “very unhealthy” range as of Thursday afternoon, data from IQAir show. Singapore was also among the 10 most polluted cities.
当记者周四联系印度尼西亚政府新闻机构时，该机构并未立即作出回应。
Indonesia’s Government Communication Agency didn’t immediately comment when contacted Thursday.
近几周，东南亚部分地区被浓重的雾霾笼罩——印度尼西亚正面临多年来最严重的森林火灾。这些火灾源于长期实行的“刀耕火种”农业方式，而厄尔尼诺现象导致的干旱天气进一步加剧了火势。
Parts of Southeast Asia have been blanketed in choking haze in recent weeks as Indonesia battles one of its worst wildfire seasons in years. The blazes have stemmed from the long-running use of slash-and-burn farming practices, exacerbated by an El Niño that has brought dry conditions to the region.
据马来西亚外交部消息，马来西亚希望与印度尼西亚加快谈判，派遣救援队协助灭火。上周，吉隆坡标准渣打马拉松赛事的组织者出于健康考虑取消了儿童组比赛，但仍继续举办了其他比赛项目（包括全程马拉松和半程马拉松）。
Malaysia is seeking expedited talks with Indonesia to send a team to help extinguish the fires, Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said, according to Bernama. Last week, organizers of the Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered Marathon canceled a kids race over health concerns while pressing on with other categories, including the full and half marathons.
绿色和平组织（Greenpeace Malaysia）及多个民间团体周三举行示威活动，呼吁制定相关法律，赋予当局更明确的权力，以便调查、收集证据并对造成跨境环境破坏的企业采取执法行动。
Greenpeace Malaysia and several civil-society groups held a demonstration Wednesday calling for legislation that would give authorities clearer powers to investigate, obtain evidence and take enforcement action against companies linked to transboundary environmental damage.
该环保组织指出，即便出台更为严格的国内法律，“单凭这些法律也无法解决所有区域性问题”。为获取火灾相关证据，还需借助东盟各国——包括马来西亚、印度尼西亚、新加坡和菲律宾——所建立的各类机制及双边合作渠道来加以补充。
The environmental group said stronger domestic laws “cannot address every regional challenge on its own” and would need to be complemented by mechanisms and bilateral channels from Asean, which includes Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines, to obtain evidence about fires.