Staff writer

KYOTO -- The air quality in and around major industrial centers in the Asia-Pacific region will continue to worsen unless mutually-agreeable countermeasures are taken, participants at an air pollution seminar said Friday in Kyoto.

Sponsored by United Nations University and Shimadzu Corp., the symposium drew about 200 people and included scientists and engineers from Japan, the U.S., China, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and the World Health Organization.