31.   Kuwaiti security forces have found light arms in the apartment of a gunman who threated a newspaper editor for publishing a cartoon, a local daily said on Monday.

32.   Local dailies reported that Chuan was allegedly targeted by bomb threats last week and that security at his home had been stepped up.

33.   Local daily China Times Express Sunday quoted foreign ministry sources as saying the Japanese official met with Taiwanese fishing officials all day Saturday.

34.   More than a third of the plaintiffs have already died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, according to local dailies.

35.   Netzler locked horns recently with the local daily, the Samoa Observer, after it published a report leaked from the treasury about the local carrier Polynesian Airlines.

36.   Some legal experts quoted by local daily The Muslim demanded the Pakistani designer be tried for alleged desecration of Koranic verses.

37.   Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines are members of the Berne Convention on artistic works, local dailies reported here Monday.

38.   Thailand has temporarily stopped sending laborers to Israel, citing the unstable political situation of the country and continuing threat of violence, local dailies reported Saturday.