1.   Chicken vendors and fishermen want reimbursement for their financial losses from the bird flu and the red tide disaster.

2.   As proposed by provisional urban councillors, chicken vendors will be required to wear a white robe, gloves and rubber boots.

3.   But the suggestion was rejected by the angry chicken vendors.

4.   Chicken vendors and politicians camped outside government offices Tuesday for a second straight day, demanding greater compensation for poultry killed in an attack on bird flu.

5.   CHICKEN vendors pleaded on Sunday for the suspension of the rent they pay during the current crisis, as they are losing large sums of money.

6.   CHICKEN vendors have been trying to recoup their losses by palming off slaughtered birds to shelters for distressed Philippine domestic workers.

7.   Chicken vendors urge the Provisional Urban Council to suspend their payment for the rent of their stalls.

8.   Councillor Wong Kwok-hing of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong suggested that chicken vendors be allowed to sell other commodities temporarily.

9.   He said an emergency loan was needed to help chicken vendors and other affected workers.

10.   Mr Ip said the council had to be cautious about letting chicken vendors sell other commodities to avoid conflicts with other stall-holders.