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    4 of Asia’s most notorious pirates

    Piracy is a problem that's hard to crack down upon and particularly critical in Southeast Asia. TIME reported that 41 per cent of all pirate attacks between 1995 and 2013 occurred within Southeast Asia. In 2013, there were a total of 125 pirate attacks (actual and attempted) in the waters of the Singapore Straits alone.