Hanoi, Vietnam, Dec 11, 2025 (AFP) - Vietnam's capital chokes through week of toxic smog

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2025-12-11

Toxic smog has blanketed Vietnam's capital for more than a week, blotting out the skyline and leaving residents wheezing as Hanoi's air quality dipped to among the world's worst on Thursday. The city of nine million ranked second only to India's New Delhi on IQAir's ranking of most polluted cities on Thursday morning, improving slightly in the afternoon. According to the Swiss monitoring company, levels of PM2.5 pollutants -- cancer-causing micro......

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