Yap Swee Seng, a representative with rights group Forum Asia, raised doubts the commission will be fully independent because it could be funded and controlled within the ASEAN Secretariat.

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Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell almost five percent.

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The SAR says it bought blue chips to foil speculators, who it believes were attacking the Hong Kong dollar so the Hang Seng stock market index would fall (they supposedly placed huge bets on a plunging Hang Seng).

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The Hang Seng index of 33 blue-chip companies is already trading near its four-year lows.

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In Asia, Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 2.5%, and South Korea's Kospi lost 1.2%.

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