1.   And Amway is hampered by a law that requires police permits for any gathering of five or more people.

2.   Police permits are required, but easily obtained, Echevarria said.

3.   She thought the police permit to march in the street would be a cinch.

4.   Police permits are required for meetings of more than five people, a relic of Dutch colonial rule.

5.   Police said the meeting in a city hotel was illegal as the organizers had not applied for a police permit.

6.   A gathering of more than four people requires a police permit.

7.   A politician challenging restrictions on free speech in Singapore was convicted on Tuesday of addressing a crowd without a police permit and sentenced to a week in jail.

8.   A required police permit for the gathering had been denied.

9.   A trial date was to be set Monday for Singapore opposition politician Chee Soon Juan, charged with speaking in public without a police permit.

10.   All public gatherings of more than five people in Malaysia require a police permit.