71.   Tokyo police are stepping up their investigation into a sex maniac whose specialty is to force young women to surrender their panties at knife-point.

72.   Triads rope the emigrants into their criminal networks, forcing the women into prostitution, for months until they pay off the costs of the voyage.

73.   Liberal MP Abdullah al-Naibari said any move towards segregation was part of an attempt to force women out of public life and the work place.