41.   While the summer sweep of discos and karaoke bars and detentions of people voicing political dissent is an annual event, the crackdown appears unusually harsh this year.

42.   Other police sources said they believed the victim was stabbed during a row among youths at a karaoke bar in the area.

43.   Players are chosen from casting calls, fan Web sites, karaoke bars and college campuses.

44.   People are looking for less expensive pastimes as they cut back on shopping for brand-name goods or trips to high-priced karaoke bars.

45.   Police make routine harassing raids on karaoke bars, saunas, nightclubs and other sex-related entertainment outlets in an effort to dissuade Taiwanese men from visiting them.

46.   Police are trying to determine why an argument in a karaoke bar escalated into a weekend melee that left three men stabbed to death.

47.   A protest was launched Friday in Hong Kong against popular Japanese-owned karaoke bars whose repertoire include patriotic Japanese military music videos with black-and-white war scenes.

48.   All were from hotels, karaoke bars and the like and when he called them, no one claimed to have paged him, Lu said in a statement.

49.   And improved living standards mean more distractions, such as late night TV shows, video games and karaoke bars.

50.   At least one found its way in January to a Bangkok karaoke bar, where its appearance panicked a hostess who mistook it for a giant rat.