21.   TENANTS should be shielded from higher rents now that government regulations require property owners to upgrade fire safety in old buildings, legislators have urged.

22.   The legislators urged the Kremlin to use its influence to prevent the discrimination and persecution of Russians in Kazakstan.

23.   The protests came as some right-wing opposition legislators urged Israelis to use unlawful means to fight against the emerging accord on a troop withdrawal and Palestinian elections.

24.   Four Japanese legislators on Tuesday urged Indonesia to alter an agreement with Tokyo to better compensate women who survived Japanese sex slave camps during World War II.

25.   Hong Kong legislators Friday urged Britain to take the lead and admit Vietnamese refugees stranded in the territory before the handover to China.

26.   A Philippine legislator on Monday urged congress to pass a law to regulate electronic pornography amid a projected growth in the number of Internet subscribers.

27.   Deputies Sun Tingfang and Xia Jiajun specifically targetted sentences for drug-related offences as being too lenient, while other legislators urged stiffer punishments for corruption.

28.   Filipino legislators have urged Manila to raise the Spratlys issue at the United Nations.

29.   Opposition party legislators have urged Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, the chairman of the SDP, to dissolve the lower house for general elections as soon as possible.

30.   Opposition legislators have urged prosecutors to expand the probe into all alleged hidden funds, fearing the government may cover up the scandal to protect Roh.