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Small sailboats crowd the narrow straits and it’s a yachtsman’s paradise in the summer months.
In 1863, the daimyo of Choshu (in western Honshu) fired on foreign ships in the Shimonoseki Straits.
Both the Straits Times of Sinapore and the Guardian of London ran editorials Monday urging the United States to be more sensitive toward Russia or risk another Cold War.
The slowness of the vote count, reported Hong Kong's South China Morning Post , resulted in the tabulation of less than 2 percent of the more than 116 million votes by Tuesday night, and the Straits Times of Singapore reported that "[s]ome tempers flared over the pace of the vote count."
Singapore's Straits Times reports the "slowdown in growth for the second quarter was across all sectors--and is the lowest growth rate in 12 years."