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By Paggie Leung from South China Morning Post Despite suffering nearly a year of emotional distress, Lehman Brothers minibonds investor Ho Chiu-kuen is determined not to accept the latest payout settlement agreed by banks and regulators. "It's not about how much banks are going to repay us - of course we'd be happier if we could... 

JEDDAH: A Saudi man has been arrested over charges linked to his televised boasts of sexual exploits, outraging religious conservatives in the Muslim state, newspapers reported yesterday. Police detained Mazen Abdul-Jawad, 32, at an apartment in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah early on Friday, fingerprinted and turned him over... 

By Mark O'Neill from The Asian Sentinel The bloody events of mid-July in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, in which hundreds of people lost their lives, have their roots in a clash of cultures that is at least 1,400 years old. In 657, the western Turks surrendered to the army of the Tang dynasty and the area of what is now Xinjiang...