Today: Kenyan general elections.
Tomorrow: South Korean parliament ends extraordinary session.
Wednesday: Presidential election in Pakistan. Mausoleum of Mao Zedong reopens in Beijing.
Thursday: UK takes over presidency of EU. Greece assumes presidency of WEU Council. South Africa switches diplomatic recognition of China from Taipei to Beijing. Rodolfo C. Sev erino takes over as secretary-general of ASEAN. Malaysia takes over chair of APEC. Brazil, Gabon, Gambia, Bahrain and Slovenia take up non-permanent seats on UN Security Council.
Stockholm begins reign as 14th cultural capital of Europe. Telephone services open to full competition across EU. British ban on imports of European beef which do not comply British abattoir standards begins. Fiftieth anniversary of multilateral trading system to be celebrated by WTO.
Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong scheduled to be excluded from the European Generalised System of Preferences. Presidential election in Russian constituent republic of North Ossetia. Free trade agreement between Poland and Israel comes into effect. UN International Year of the Ocean begins.
Friday: UN military committee holds first meeting of 1998.
Sunday: Second round of Lithuanian presidential elections. - (Future Events News Service)
Ireland
Today: Toy Workers Rights Conference, Dun Laoghaire. Sunday: Opening of photographic exhibition of the "Jewish Holocaust and the Genocide of East Timor" at Irish Film Centre, Dublin.
Irish events should be received by David Shanks, Foreign Desk, on the Friday before publication