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Under the headline "Advance Australia Fair," the Straits Times of Singapore said that "the results of Australia's general election bear testimony to the resilience of its national character."
In Singapore, the Straits Times led its front page Monday with a story anticipating that the euro would boost the value of Asian currencies against the dollar.
In an editorial, the Straits Times of Singapore dwelt Friday on the threat of further secessions from Indonesia following the independence of East Timor.
Unable or unwilling to court the old vassal Malay States or the orang laut pirates to patrol the seas, the new rulers forfeited their predecessors’ commercial monopoly in the Melaka Straits and, with it, command of the Moluccas spice trade.
The Straits Settlements were formed after the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of London (1824).