Most pirates in the narrow sea channel easily elude authorities using sophisticated communications devices and by slipping into numerous island hide-outs, the bureau said.
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Fueled by unrest and rising poverty in Indonesia, piracy in the 550-mile-long sea channel has soared, and could hurt the region's development, experts say.
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In addition the sea channel was blocked by a number of naval ships sunk by the Luftwaffe in 1941, including the decommissioned battleships " Kilkis ".
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It has a bird's-eye view east, south and west over the Kor ula and Peljeaac sea channel with the old town of Kor ula in the background.
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At a news conference in Johore Bahru, the capital of Johore, just across a 2-kilometer ( 1-mile ) sea channel from Singapore, Tang described Lee as insensitive.
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At its foot begins the Sea Channel ( " Morskoi Kanal " ), one of the most extensive waterworks of the Baroque period, which bisects the Lower Gardens.
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Ukraine claimed Friday that a Russian dam in a thin Azov Sea channel separating the two countries would violate Ukraine's sovereignty by joining its territory with Russian land.
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The records of his observations of deep-sea channels was used by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace when studying the disjuncts in the bio-geographic distribution of the region.
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The sea channels here are one of the last habitats of the rare dugong, and around 40 of them graze on the sea grass that flourishes in the bay.
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The reason, officials say, is that traffickers have found ways to reopen some air routes and to replace others with river, road and sea channels, making coca profitable once again.
