အခိုးအေငြ႕ကာ မ်က္ႏွာဖုံးေတြ ေဘဂ်င္းမွာ ျပတ္လပ္

အစိုးရက အိမ္ထဲေနဖို ့ေျပာေပမယ့္ မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးနဲ ့ပန္းျခံမွာ အကက်င့္ေနတဲ့အမ်ိဳးသမီး

နိုင္ငံတကာ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳ အႏၲရာယ္ သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ထက္ အဆ ၂၀ ပိုမ်ားေန

တ႐ုတ္နိုင္ငံ ဘီဂ်င္းၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္မွာ မီးခိုးျမဴ အႏၲရာယ္ကို ၆ ရက္ေျမာက္ သတိေပး ၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ မ်က္ႏွာဖုံး ေရာင္းသူေတြ အေနနဲ႔ ပစၥည္းျပတ္သြားပါတယ္။

နိုင္ငံတကာ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳတဲ့ ေလထုညစ္ညမ္းတဲ့ အႏၲရာယ္ သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ထက္ ဘီဂ်င္းမွာ အဆ၂၀ ပိုမ်ားေနၿပီး အနီးအနား ျပည္နယ္ေတြထက္လည္း ပိုမ်ားေနပါတယ္။

အသက္ရွူၾကပ္တဲ့ အခိုးအေငြ႕ဒဏ္ ကာကြယ္ဖို႔ လူေတြ တိုးေဝွ႕ ဝယ္ယူၾကတဲ့အတြက္ မ်က္ႏွာဖုံး အမ်ားဆုံးထုတ္တဲ့ ကုမၸဏီႀကီးေတြ ေရာင္းမေလာက္ေအာင္ ျဖစ္သြားပါတယ္။

ဘီဂ်င္းၿမိဳ႕မွာ ေရွ႕ကို မီတာ အနည္းငယ္သာ ျမင္ေတြ႕နိုင္ၿပီး အထပ္ျမင့္ႀကီးေတြဟာ ျမဴခိုးေတြၾကားထဲမွာ ေပ်ာက္ေနတယ္လို႔ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္မွာ ေနၾကသူေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။

BBC Burmese

Chinese urbanites are spending millions on anti-pollution masks—and most of them don’t do anything

By Lily Kuo @lilkuo February 25, 2014

As heavy smog envelopes Beijing and neighboring cities this week, residents are rushing to stores to buy face masks that promise to protect them from harmful pollutants in the air. But whether these masks, now a permanent accessory for most urbanites, actually do much good is still very much an open question.

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“In China, people just pretend or assume [face masks] are useful. It’s mass behavior,” says Wong Chit Ming, a researcher at Hong Kong University’s school of public health. “You may feel a little better…but there’s no real evidence they help.”

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Air pollution has spawned an entire industry around face masks, or kouzhao, that usually cover the nose and mouth. They include cotton masks with cute designs, surgical masks, and imported high-end filters, and last year, Chinese shoppers spent 870 million yuan ($141 million) buying them on Taobao, the country’s largest e-commerce site. Earlier this year, officials in Shanghai considered distributing 23 million protective masks to residents. 

http://qz.com/180830/chinese-urbanites-are-spending-millions-on-anti-pollution-masks-and-most-of-them-dont-do-anything/