Smog and sick kids: Thai pupils endure air pollution

Bangkok (AFP) Mar 13, 2024

Hundreds of Thai children strain to sing the national anthem, reedy voices and fragile lungs competing against eight lanes of belching traffic next to their school's open atrium in central Bangkok. Pupils at Suan Lumphini School assemble each morning under a coloured flag indicating the day's air quality - red for worst, yellow for second worst, blue for best. Thailand registers dire ai