1.   Bangkok has a rapidly expanding elephant population due to a government ban on logging.

2.   At their annual trade show today, cable companies expressed alarm at the prospect of competition from B T.

3.   Another group, Hezbul Mujahedeen, which is based in the Pakistani area of Kashmir and has focused all along on that conflict, escaped the government ban entirely.

4.   But the field has progressed slowly, mostly because of a government ban on federally supported human-embryo research.

5.   But the piecemeal efforts of its millions of Chinese members have at the very least created a nationwide web of like-minded people that effectively undercuts the government ban.

6.   Buying Catteau would give Promodes the chance to expand in northern France amid a government ban on new large-store openings designed to protect small shopkeepers.

7.   China will host its first international amateur boxing tournament later this month, more than a decade after a government ban on the sport was lifted.

8.   For Promodes, the purchase lets it expand in northeastern France amid a French government ban on new large stores.

9.   Guujaaw opposes lifting a government ban on drilling in the ecologically sensitive waters.

10.   However, the commuter business is uncertain following a government ban on flying ATR planes in icy weather.