Maria Soshnikova

Mr.Gate's presence threw Hong Kong into a technotizzy as the government announced a lot of Singapore rivalling projects, from a $1.6 billion «cyberport» to efforts to make Hong Kong the region's e-commerce hub.

Backing Thursday's mass lobby was the first decision taken by delegates from 30 union organisations called together by steel workers action groups at the weekend to set up a grass-roots Fight Back for jobs movement.

the elections to the new Scottish parliament has been perhaps the first revolution (how else do you describe the re-establishment of a nation's government?) that has been conducted by pen-pushing committees of lawyers, clergymen and accountants rather than cells of bearded radicals.

As far as the mind is concerned racism cannot be done away with by legislation. But acts of racism can. That's where we can pinpoint the question. When racist acts become illegal, that becomes a much firmer basis to remove racism from the minds of people.

The Scottish Films Television Archive has been awarded £377.000 towards cataloguing and restoring thousands of films that have been stored in its Glasgow premises since it began an appeal in 1976 for the public to donate material lying in attics and basements.

The EU's new Nordic members are far less inclined than the Mediterraneans are — or were — to see high political office as a chance to dole out the patronage and delegate the detailed stuff.

1. As American presidents have understood since Harry Truman declined to use nuclear bombs in Korea, legitimising the use of these weapons in battle would weaken the taboo that restrains other nuclear powers from using theirs, doing far more to imperil America's global security than to advance it.

One trouble with EU as a whole is that what served a club of six or nine well enough no longer looks adequate for a club of 15. Let alone one of 20 or 25, especially one with so many responsibilities.

The share of imports in Britain's consumption of manufactured and semi- manufactured goods increased greatly over the past ten years. It was this growth which alarmed the Government and business last year when the expansion of imports had a severe effect on the balance of payments.

It was in an attempt to alter the ratio between the increase of rice-eaters and of rice that the International Rice Research Institute was conceived in 1959, and started operations at Los Banos in the Philippines in 1962.