The island city-state sits at the mouth of the strategically vital Strait of Malacca.
First he sped 140 km south to Ayer Keroh, in Malacca state, for a series of meetings.
The water gently laps beneath the deck of our villa, as we admire the sun setting over the Straits of Malacca.
Sea turtle lovers can visit the Ma'Daerah Turtle Sanctuary in Terengganu or Malacca's Padang Kemunting Turtle Hatchery.
Wooden fishing boats spread along the Straits of Malacca between Malaysia and Indonesia could also prove tricky to negotiate.
The politician involved, the then chief minister of Malacca, may have been innocent, or he may have been guilty.
More than four-fifths of crude oil bound for China crosses the Indian Ocean before passing through the narrow Malacca Strait.
He broke down under the attack and stepped aside as the head of UMNO's youth wing and as Malacca chief minister.
Last autumn, the Japanese-owned Tenyu sailed out of the Malacca Strait bound for South Korea with 1, 500 tonnes of aluminium ingots.
"Mahathir is brave, although sometimes not popular, " said Malacca delegate Othman Muhamad.
In 2010 the dialogues will be held in Malacca, a site of contact between the Arab and Asian worlds for five hundred years.
Only two attacks happened last year in the Malacca Straits, which lie between Indonesia and Malaysia, compared to seven the year before, the report said.
Of the 74, 000 vessels, carrying one-third of global seaborne trade, that passed through the Strait of Malacca last year, most also plied the South China Sea.
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After 14 years of Mahathir's premiership, the Malays, like Malaysia's other ethnic groups, are enjoying the greatest period of prosperity since the days of the Malacca Sultanate.
As you know, if you range back about seven or eight years, we had a significant piracy problem that was manifesting itself in the Strait of Malacca.
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The NSR cuts the voyage from Shanghai to Hamburg by 6, 400km (4, 000 miles) compared with the southern journey through the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal.
And it was the nations of Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand that came together and began to patrol in earnest the Strait of Malacca and quelled piracy quite a bit.
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For example, Murmansk to China's Ningbo port near Shanghai is 13, 000 km via the NSR, compared with 22, 000 km via the Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean and Strait of Malacca.
The 26-year-old from Malacca makes her living -- and her name as a local celebrity -- by fearlessly entering a 3 meter-by-3 meter plastic box filled with the potentially lethal stingers.
The Portuguese navigators who had daringly rounded Cape Bojador in west Africa in 1434 did not take long to seize Goa and then Malacca--the center of a lush trade in cloth and spices.
As China emerges as a trading giant (one increasingly dependent on imported oil), a few of its military analysts talk about the need to protect distant sea lanes in the Malacca Strait and beyond.
The food for which the enclave is renowned traces the route by which the Portuguese came to Macau--past Africa, the southern Middle East, Goa and Malacca--and by the ingredients available on the south China coast.
Malaysian authorities revealed later that military radar had tracked the plane as it turned back to the west and flew across the Malaysian Peninsula, up the Strait of Malacca, before flying out of radar range at 2:14 a.m. and vanishing once again.
Whether or not China is able to avoid the "Malacca trap" by building pipeline and railways across Central Asia to the Middle East, it will still need Dubai as its hub for its growing reach into the Middle East and Africa.
The Essex and Juneau were expected to depart the gulf later Thursday when they finished off-loading the helicopters, then steam around the Malay Peninsula through the Strait of Malacca and into the Andaman Sea to be in position closer to Myanmar.
The list of casualties reads like a Who's Who of Mahathir backers: the PM's close friend and former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, former agriculture minister Sanusi Junid, the ex-deputy premier Ghafar Baba, former chief minister of Malacca Rahim Tamby Chik, current deputy ministers Khalid Yunus and Railey Jeffrey, and the party's veteran information chief Hussein Ahmad.
The spiritual mission helped doom the enclave's material prosperity, when the Jesuits' spreading influence finally prompted Japan to shutter itself from the world by the early 1640s. (The Dutch cut off trade from the other direction by seizing Malacca in 1641.) But over the next century the effort gave Macau a purpose, as a center of learning and a bridge to the Middle Kingdom.
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