There's a New Contender for Title of Asia's Most Polluted City
- The world’s most-visited city has been shrouded in gray smog
- Officials are resorting to rainmaking planes to disperse it
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Bangkok, the metropolis of gastronomic delights, infamous nightlife and swarming tourists, now has another sobriquet: it’s one of Asia’s most polluted cities, at least in the past couple of weeks.
Concentrations of tiny, airborne PM2.5 particles that damage health on some days topped levels in New Delhi and Beijing, the more traditional poster-cities for the perils of smog. The national rainmaking agency flew sorties over Bangkok for the first time ever this week to try and wash away the haze.