If you are flying from the UK you might as well go to Brindisi, Bari or even Naples, as Pisa or Rome.The plus points are that the sea is unpolluted while the food, based heavily on top-class vegetables and fish, is cheap and lovely and cooked in a simple style. They already have a 12.5 per cent shareholding in Cathay, held through Citic Pacific, the locally listed arm of Peking's international investment company, China International Trust and Investment.HSBC rejected suggestions that the disposal was part of a disinvestment from Hong Kong, saying total assets there had increased from HKdollars 444bn to HKdollars 545bn last year.It said it had not put the shares on the market but was invited to to do so by Cathay after two organisations owned by the Chinese government had expressed an interest.They are China National Aviation Corporation and China Travel Service (Holdings) Hong Kong, which are taking 5 per cent each.HSBC's stake in Cathay peaked at 30 per cent in 1983 but has been reduced gradually since 1986.The sale of additional shares to Chinese-owned companies is expected to smooth the path for Cathay after Hong Kong's return to China in 1997.'The investment in Cathay by Chinese aviation concerns would certainly result in better synergy than with Citic and should better ensure its post-1997 prospects,' Philip Mok, airline analyst at Barclays De Zoete Wedd Securities, said.This was especially true for the second local carrier, Dragonair - also a Swire and Cathay unit and partly held by Citic - as it had taken over the bulk of Cathay's China routes, Mr Mok added.Market report, page 23. In its earliest uses it sometimes appears as 'a strike of work', which suggests that it may have something to do with with usages such as 'struck off' and 'strike that from the minutes', in which the word has the sense of cancellation or withdrawal. Drain briefly on kitchen paper, then arrange in a shallow dish.Trim off most of the green part of the spring onions and discard. Increasing competition between institutions and attempts to boost marks in the humanities subjects, which have traditionally gained lower degree classifications than the sciences, could be having an effect.Or it might be that, whatever academics think about the quality of teaching they provide, it actually has little impact on what students actually learn.

A wide range of 5-series models, from slow 518i to super-quick M5, costing over pounds 50,000.Ford Granada EFi Ghia, pounds 20,070. Eventually the battalion could become involved in international peace-keeping operations or in joint manoeuvres with Nato countries under the Partnership for Peace programme. But this is one heck of a gamble: Nato is playing not only with lives or with honour but also with its future. The high-brow pop view is that, equipped only with our cultural studies qualifications, we should dive into this morass and analyse like crazy in the brittle prose the form seems to require. Customers and their employees are to receive copies of an Intel video that points out the risks of theft.But the central plank of the company's strategy is improved traceability - at present chips are anonymous and easily sold in the burgeoning grey market that has emerged for them.Intel intends to laser-etch into each chip a unique serial number - and record the name of its buyer on a database.Will this be enough? Many Intel chips are sold to distributors, rather than computer manufacturers.

The Secretary-General wants to see only 'the minimum of enlargement' and thinks the veto must be preserved. An unofficial curfew, one of pure fear, keeps most people off the streets after 9 pm.The crisis has led to a suspension of public services, making the always-unbearable stench of Port-au-Prince worse than ever. Someone who wasn't a doctor would not have the necessary medical expertise - the defence of necessity is more readily available to a doctor.'Dr Biezanek, a widow and mother of seven children, listened impassively as the verdicts were announced. 'You need someone with confidence in you who will offer you work you are competent to do and won't trouble you with things beyond your competence.'Why though, apart from economic considerations, should law firms turn to freelance advocates?A number of features mean that they are objectively better than the Bar, Mr Cooper believes. In coming weeks, Ms Brandal faces new dangers as she implements the next phase of the UN plan - educating Cambodians in the meaning of democracy.As ox wagons gathered outside the centre, registration cards were handed to proud voters, and old widows - heads shaven according to custom - were watching an election video. They could be chewing gum and showing a V-sign to the world, but they're not All they're doing is swaying their hips - very slowly.

The nil-paid rights topped 60p, closing at 57.5p, up 8.5p.Seaq put share volume at a remarkable 44 million, with the rights attracting a 7.4 million turnover. Dynamark makes custom mouldings for Outdoor Products and other Noma companies.The products are manufactured in two modern facilities in Tennessee and Ontario.The deal is subject to regulatory approval in the US and Canada. It was not until mid-November that the UN inspectors visited the Abu Zergi marsh to investigate the allegations. Rangers' manager, Walter Smith, is unlikely to condone his behaviour while Jim Farry, the SFA chief executive, said yesterday that spitting was viewed as a 'highly serious' offence. Ferguson was incensed in the dying seconds of Rangers' 3-0 home defeat when Petric caught him in the face with an elbow, but the referee, Bill Crombie, and the television cameras caught his retaliatory gesture.He is automatically suspended for one game, for being sent off, and he has a three-match suspension starting on Saturday in addition, which means Ferguson will not play again until 15 January - unless the SFA decides to impose further punishment.Rangers' defeat, inflicted by goals from Dave Bowman, after 24 seconds, Paddy Connolly and Craig Brewster, was not enough to knock them off the top of the Premier Division as Celtic could only draw at Dundee, Motherwell were beaten3-2 at Hibernian and Aberdeen's game against Partick Thistle was postponed until tomorrow.Celtic had a Gerry Creaney equaliser to be thankful for after Dragutin Ristic had given Dundee the lead at Dens Park; Motherwell seemed to be heading for the top after Tommy Coyne scored his first goals since his transfer from Tranmere, but late goals by Billy Findlay and Graham Mitchell put paid to that idea.. MARK EVANS, the umpire of tomorrow's Boat Race, yesterday threw the Oxford and Cambridge camps into confusion by declaring that he might introduce a delay of up to 10 seconds between 'Set' and 'Go' in his starting command. WATER PRICES in Britain have risen by almost 50 per cent in the past five years. But history teaches that you should buy into the Hong Kong market on political weakness.