In Bahrain, protestors are camping out at Pearl Square calling for sweeping political reforms in the country. They have vowed not to leave the place despite the release of leading Shiite opposition activists and renewed calls by the king for talks. According to Bahrain’s official news agency Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa has renewed an appeal for dialogue and said that public squares are not the right place for national dialogue and right thing is to sit to the table of national dialogue. Meanwhile thousands of Yemeni anti-regime demonstrators are defiant after government loyalists shot two of them dead, Reports say that eight ruling party MPs resigned over the suppression of protests. Country’s president Saleh has already rejected demands of his stepping down. He however renewed calls for talks with the protesters. In a related development, Jordan's Cabinet has approved a laws making it easier to organize protests. The law will also revive a government body that works to ensure basic commodities remain affordable to the poor. In an attempt to discourage unrest that has spread to neighboring Bahrain, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah nearly doubles a development fund that helps citizens buy homes, get married, start businesses, and sets up unemployment assistance for the first time which will cost government nearly 10.7 billion dollars.