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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.
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 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."
The Straits Times of Singapore led on a prediction by World Bank Chief James Wolfensohn, made in an interview with the International Herald Tribune , that as many as 20 million more Indonesians may be forced into poverty by their country's economic crisis and remain desperately poor for years to come.
Like the lead guitarist of the erstwhile Dire Straits, Amis is a stolid, middle-class New Briton blessed with considerable chops, torn between worldly cynicism and a certain nostalgie de la boue , whose wish to get down and dirty is undertaken professionally but stops a bit short of conviction.