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With the orang laut pirates as allies, Srivijaya controlled the Straits of Melaka (known in colonial times as Malacca), a key link between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea.
According to the Straits Times of Singapore, Ong Teng Cheong, the incumbent and the country's first elected president (prior to 1993 the president was chosen by parliament), wanted to seek re-election, but the Cabinet declined to support him for a second term because it felt "there was a strong likelihood that the President's health would affect the discharge of his official duties in the next few years."
In Singapore, the Sunday Straits Times reported from West Timor that pro-Jakarta militias are being trained by Indonesian army defectors to kill Australian soldiers.
In India, Sunanda Datta-Ray, a former editor of the Statesman of Calcutta and now an editorial consultant with the Straits Times of Singapore, wrote in the Asian Age that Indians fear the Clinton scandal will "set back their own promised freedom of information bill."
The Straits Times said that, because of the Kosovo conflict and the United States' promise of a new theatre-missile defense system for Taiwan, the PLA is expected to intensify the development of intermediate or long-range missiles and military communications technology.