11.   China said Thursday it was willing to resume talks with the United States on intellectual property rights protection and warned that U.S. sanctions would do no good.

12.   Davies did report good progress on other legal issues, including intellectual property rights protection and transfer to Hong Kong of residents serving sentences elsewhere in the world.

13.   Denying Medicaid to poor women in medical need of an abortion violates their equal rights protection, a Texas appeals court ruled Thursday.

14.   He listed improvements in education, environmental protection, worker rights protections, the independence of judges and the professionalism of police.

15.   In Maine, gay rights protection looked set for approval, but a proposal to allow doctor-assisted suicide was too close to call.

16.   In trade, the United States remains dissatisfied with market access and intellectual property rights protection in China.

17.   Intellectual property rights protection is however necessary to promote software development, otherwise, developers will be discouraged since their products can be copied.

18.   It appeared in the newspaper the day before a team of U.S. negotiatiors was expected in Beijing to resume talks on intellectual property rights protection.

19.   It called on President Clinton, who is visiting China, to do more to support better rights protection in China.

20.   Maine voters looked set to approve gay rights protection but to reject doctor-assisted suicide.