11.   Thick haze sullied the skies over parts of the Northeast on Tuesday.

12.   Patipi said attempts to get supplies to isolated areas had been hampered by a thick smoke haze from forest fires.

13.   A Malaysian city on Borneo closed all its schools Monday because of a thick haze, believed to come from forest fires in the Indonesian portion of the island.

14.   A thick haze was hanging over Hong Kong early yesterday, cutting visibility and obscuring the sun.

15.   A thick haze over the Nepalese capital Monday forced international flights to turn back, airport officials said.

16.   A top Malaysian government official was quoted as saying both countries did not want a repeat of the thick haze which choked parts of the region last year.

17.   Agricultural officials also have warned that harvests could be affected by thick haze blocking sunshine needed to grow crops.

18.   Another challenge for the team was the thick haze hanging over East Kalimantan.

19.   Australia has offered to help Indonesia fight the forest fires which have blanketed much of Southeast Asia in a thick brown haze.

20.   Blazes that started this year in East Kalimantan, an Indonesian province on eastern Borneo, have endangered wildlife and forced regional airports to close because of thick haze.