"Yaacob bin Ibrahim" is a Singaporean politician. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is the country's Ministry of Communications and Information/Minister for Communications and Information, and Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs. A Member of Parliament (MP) since 1997, he was the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports/Minister for Community Development and Sports from 2003 to 2004, as the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources/Minister for the Environment and Water Resources from 2004 to 2011, and as the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts/Minister for the Information, Communications and the Arts from 21 May 2011 to 1 November 2012.

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We are all concerned equally about the image of ASEAN as an effect of this haze and (the Indonesian environment minister) understands it also, that's why he was prepared to take the offer of support from Singapore, Malaysia and the other countries.

So we will do our part to work together with our Indonesian counterparts to try and control this problem. I think more importantly, ASEAN should come together and see this as an ASEAN challenge so that we can tackle this as quickly as possible.

We will mobilize 540 people to go down to four different estates this weekend for the combing exercise. The exercise will be extended to the whole of Singapore subsequently.