The funnel-shaped Strait of Malacca stretches 600 nautical miles between the west coast of peninsular Malaysia and the east coast of Sumatra. Named after the ancient city of Malacca (Melaka, in Malay), it is one of the busiest and most...

Coordinates: 1.43° N 102.89° E The Strait of Malacca is a narrow, 805 km (500 mile) stretch of water between Peninsular Malaysia (West Malaysia) and the Indonesian island of...

The Straits of Malacca: Gateway or Gauntlet? by Donald B. Freeman. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xxiv, 249 pp. $44.95 US (cloth). Students of Asian affairs, historical and contemporary, can hardly afford not to know about the Straits of Malacca. The book...

The Straits of Malacca and Singapore are the main seaway connecting the Indian Ocean with the South China Sea and together are the shortest route for tankers trading between the Middle East and Far East Asian countries. Consequently, traffic transiting the region is...

Pirate attacks have increased sharply, especially in Somalia and Nigeria, an international maritime watchdog agency said Thursday.There were 85 attacks on ships in the April-June quarter, up from 66 in the same period a year earlier and from 41 in the previous quarter, the London-based...