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Old Feb 11, 2009 | 1:28 am
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jpatokal
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Originally Posted by -DSH-
Okay, narrowed it down to Hong Kong or Singapore. First off, I decided against Bangkok due to the pollution, I can't really cope with it .
Then you may want to think twice about Hong Kong as well -- thanks to the vast industrial zones on the mainland around it, pollution there can get worse than Bangkok, although summers are usually better than winters.

I don't find the pollution in Bangkok to be bad at all, and neither does an asthmatic friend of mine, but YMMV. Singapore is certainly cleaner, and a visit in the summer would be before forest fire haze season (and there hasn't really been any in the past two years).
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