31.   Angry foreign protests prompted French truck drivers briefly to open roads near Bordeaux overnight to allow several hundred lorries to leave.

32.   The protests prompted President Fidel Ramos to downgrade relations with Singapore and ban the deployment of new Filipina maids in the island republic.

33.   Their protests prompted the government to ban those traditional Chinese medicines last April and to threaten violators with fines.

34.   The protests prompted Philippine President Fidel Ramos to downgrade relations with Singapore.