{"id":53849,"date":"2023-03-27T17:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/27\/air-pollution-chokes-thailand-as-campaigners-call-for-stricter-laws-chiang-mai"},"modified":"2023-03-27T17:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T08:35:13","slug":"air-pollution-chokes-thailand-as-campaigners-call-for-stricter-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53849","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution chokes Thailand as campaigners call for stricter laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chiang Mai listed as worst in the world for air quality as pollution worsens during cooler months<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bEvery December, Dr Nitipatana Chierakul, a specialist in respiratory medicine, notices the same pattern at his hospital department in Bangkok: his patients\u2019 conditions will start to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>Some present with chest pain or prolonged coughs. \u201cMostly they have difficulty breathing,\u201d he says. For at least three months, patients who have pre-existing conditions can amount to up to 80% of his department\u2019s caseload, he estimates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/27\/air-pollution-chokes-thailand-as-campaigners-call-for-stricter-laws-chiang-mai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chiang Mai listed as worst in the world for air quality as pollution worsens during cooler months\u200b\u200bEvery December, Dr Nitipatana Chierakul, a specialist in respiratory medicine, notices the same pattern at his hospital department in Bangkok: his patien&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[722,41,65,466,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-pollution","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53855,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53849\/revisions\/53855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}