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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.
Small sailboats crowd the narrow straits and it’s a yachtsman’s paradise in the summer months.
The South China Morning Post of Hong Kong used the headline "Clinton joy over historic election gain," while the Straits Times of Singapore described the Democrats as the "victors."
Hard-liners, suspicious of U.S. ideological influence, asserted themselves in March 1996, when missile tests in the Straits of Taiwan were timed to intimidate Taiwan's politicians and electorate as the country held its first direct elections to the presidency.
The seizure last week of the Myanmar (Burma) Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, by pro-democracy protestors "achieved precious little to advance the cause of the hobbled pro-democracy movement in that benighted country," the Straits Times of Singapore said in an editorial.