1.   Parliament lifted the moratorium last January, but introduced a new set of regulations that demanded law amendments.

2.   It also was angered by press law amendments requiring newspapers to raise their capital.

3.   Its leaders are already preparing electoral law amendments in order to postpone the mayoral elections, the campaign for which officially began Monday.

4.   Meanwhile, Stanley Ng Wing-fai, Provisional Urban Councillor and a town planner, supported the law amendment.

5.   Meanwhile, representatives of unions and opposition political parties met Tuesday with Majali to discuss the controversy over the press law amendments.

6.   Meanwhile, representatives of unions and opposition political parties met with Majali Tuesday to discuss the controversy over the press law amendments.

7.   President Boris Yeltsin on Thursday approved a series of law amendments granting tax privileges to the Russian media, a news agency said.

8.   President Zhelyu Zhelev asked the Constitutional Court Wednesday to invalidate a Socialist-sponsored land law amendment he says encroaches on private ownership rights.

9.   The Constitutional Court on Monday invalidated controversial clauses in a Socialist land law amendment which President Zhelyu Zhelev and the opposition charged encroached on private ownership rights.

10.   The nine-member board of the Jordan Press Association resigned Sunday in protest of the press law amendments.