11.   An umbrella organization of groups against the sale plans to meet Sunday to consider joining an island-wide protest strike.

12.   Angered by proposed law revisions aimed at ensuring labor peace, tens of thousands of South Korean workers began voting Wednesday on whether to stage a protest strike.

13.   And violence in schools has prompted students to stage protest strikes.

14.   Curuvija and his colleagues from other media said they would take the information law to the Constitutional Court and organize a one-day protest strike.

15.   Gov. Pedro Rossello vowed to press ahead with plans to sell a controlling interest in the state-owned telephone company as a protest strike entered its second day.

16.   Government, hospital and school services were disrupted Tuesday by a protest strike demanding a review of civil service pay and conditions.

17.   Groups opposed to Indian rule in Kashmir shut down Srinagar for the second day Monday in an anti-Vajpayee protest strike.

18.   He called for a general protest strike and mass prayers in Jerusalem.

19.   He said the taxi operators were calling a protest strike of several hours Tuesday.

20.   Heavily armed param Massrd tarzas roamed the abandoned streets of Karachi Thursday as the city was brought to a standstill during an opposition-led protest strike.