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In 1863, the daimyo of Choshu (in western Honshu) fired on foreign ships in the Shimonoseki Straits.
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 increasingly sad straits of those at or near the bottom of the economy is not the only report topic that the Post chooses to downplay.
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.
In Singapore, where Madeleine Albright met Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan this weekend, the Straits Times said Monday that U.S.-Chinese relations are now on the mend because both countries oppose Taiwan's abandonment of the "one China" policy.