31.   Police detained and punched, kicked and spat on followers who protested on Tiananmen Square, the huge plaza in the center of Beijing.

32.   Pro-democracy groups opposed to the unelected legislature plan to protest on handover night.

33.   Students also protested on campuses across Egypt in peaceful and generally small gatherings.

34.   Television executives protested on Wednesday a decision to ban prime-time advertising on state TV, saying the station needed the revenue to survive.

35.   Students protest on campuses around the country virtually every day, sometimes clashing with police on the streets outside university gates.

36.   Students protested on campuses across Egypt in peaceful and generally small gatherings.

37.   The demonstrators protested on the sidewalk on the main road leading to Parliament.

38.   The military has tolerated students protesting on campuses but moved firmly against those trying to take to the streets, which has often resulted in minor clashes.

39.   The Philippine government protested on Monday the reported shooting of a Filipino fisherman by Vietnamese troops in the disputed Spratly Islands, Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon said.

40.   The Sipah-e-Sahaba vowed to avenge these killings and on Monday protested in several cities.