Malaysia will also be speaking to Asean to come up with a mechanism to tackle the haze problem.
Putrajaya is mulling the creation of a Transboundary Haze Act, to punish Malaysian companies that cause haze in other countries.
"I will also get advice from the attorney-general on how to draft the law and what we can include in the Act to make it effective in tackling haze," Yeo told reporters at the Airforce base in Subang today. SDP and IOI have refuted the reports, while KLK admitted that a fire had broken out at its subsidiary's estate before it was extinguished.
"As a country, we are not able to overcome the transboundary haze issue alone. We need cooperation at the international and regional level," she said.
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