2026-10-22
24 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Bloor.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Today on the show, a phone call with Sam Bankman-Fried from prison and Singapore's toxic smog.
Best up though.
Here in the city, a gas chamber.
Nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape.
And it's just so dark and yellow because of the poisonous gas.
Indonesians have been living under a blanket of haze for months as wildfires spread across Borneo and Sumatra.
This week, students took to the streets in several cities,
protesting at the government's handling of the fires and the toxic smoke.
This soon broadened into wider anger with President Prabowo Subianto's administration.
Indonesia isn't the only country suffering.
The smog is choking Malaysia, parts of the Philippines and Singapore.
Singapore has been the world's most polluted city at various points in recent weeks.
It's a big public health problem.
Vishnu Padmanabhan is our Asia correspondent.
The government is really trying to help its citizens adjust to that.
It's distributing masks to citizens and permanent residents.