In a statement issued late on Tuesday, the Transportation Ministry’s civil aviation director general, Lukman Laisa, said his office had not received a flight clearance request for Malaysian aircraft to carry out a waterbombing mission in areas hit by wildfires.

Indonesia has intensified ground and aerial firefighting operations Monday as forest and peatland fires fueled by El Nino-driven drought and a prolonged dry season scorched tens…

Malaysia's national disaster management agency and its meteorological department are currently preparing schedules for cloud seeding operations in shared border locations, to be…