11.   PROVISIONAL legislators have urged the Financial Secretary not to carry out his threat to remove some tax concessions in the Budget if they reject the fuel tax rise.

12.   Provisional legislators objected, saying that the division needed to recruit only short-term staff to handle tasks brought by the change of sovereignty.

13.   RADIO Television Hong Kong faces a challenge from provisional legislator Wong Siu-yee over political programs that supposedly lampoon Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa and other politicians.

14.   A FORMER business partner on Tuesday began his testimony in court against provisional legislator Chim Pui-chung under an immunity-from-prosecution deal.

15.   A FORMER provisional legislator was attacked with pepper by two robbers who stole his watch and money last night.

16.   A spokesman for the Finance Bureau said the government did not expect the Budget to be disapproved by provisional legislators.

17.   Accompanying the parents was provisional legislator Lau Kong-wah.

18.   After the handover, provisional legislators passed amendments to immigration laws denying such children automatic right of abode.

19.   All three are provisional legislators.

20.   Another case is that of senior Liberal Henry Tang Ying-yen, who is a provisional legislator as well as an Executive Councillor.