1.   She helped him register the visas with the Japanese government, and massaged his hands when they became cramped from signing and stamping the documents.

2.   In the past, Malaysians on motorcycles only needed to show their restricted passports without having their documents stamped, unlike those using international passports.

3.   It was not immediately clear whether the documents were also stamped by the Israelis.

4.   They stamped documents indicating the work had been done last December, Sieck said.

5.   Palestinian police and officials in passport, customs and security departments were to begin work on Tuesday when travellers would have documents stamped with new Palestinian authority stamps.