Summary Visibility in Kuala Lumpur remained poor on Monday as schools were closed.
KUALA LUMPUR (Agencies) - Thick haze from forest fires in Indonesia has continued to shroud parts of Malaysia, local media reported on Monday.
Visibility in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, remained poor on Monday as officials ordered schools closed in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor state.
In Singapore air quality continued to improve after last week s record haze, as wind conditions changed.
Indonesia is working to control the blazes but so far cloud-seeding has not produced enough rain, an official says.
Agus Wibowo, an Indonesian disaster agency official, told Agence-France Presse news agency that two cloud-seeding attempts were tried in Riau province over the weekend.
"The cloud-seeding technology is meant to speed up rainfall, but with few clouds, there s little we can do. The rain was more like a drizzle."
On Sunday Malaysia declared a state of emergency in two southern districts as pollution levels soared, leaving two towns in virtual shutdown.
Conditions eased somewhat in the south on Monday but worsened in other parts of the country.
The Air Pollutant Index (API) in Kuala Lumpur was near the 200 level, or "very unhealthy", on Monday, while in Port Dickson, located across from Sumatra, it reached 335, or "hazardous".
The smog is being blamed on illegal land-clearing fires burning near the provincial capital of Indonesia s Riau province, Pekanbaru.
Singapore s prime minister has warned that the problem could continue for weeks as teams struggle to bring the fires under control amid dry weather.
