Warsaw  - Lech Walesa, one-time leader of the Solidarity trade u

Warsaw  - There were currently 10 offers to buy Poland's shipyards including one concrete offer that could save the ailing facilities from bankruptcy, Poland's treasury minister said Wednesday.

Warsaw  - Some 20,000 Polish postal workers went on strike Tuesday to press demands for higher pay amid a stalemate in talks with executives.

Warsaw  - Millions of Polish schoolchildren had a day off school Tuesday as teachers throughout the country went on strike.

Half of all schools had no classes, a spokesman from the Ministry for National Education said in Warsaw.

According to the teachers' union, ZNP, at least two thirds of the 30,000 schools and kindergartens were closed.

In the province of Swietokrzyskie, central Poland, 84 per cent of schools were on strike while in the southern city of Opole and in West Pomerania, north-west Poland, only
17 per cent were on strike.

Warsaw  - Brushing aside US criticism, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Friday that Washington must provide financial aid for the Polish armed forces if it wants to deploy a missile shield on

Warsaw  - Polish politicians and intellectuals Wednesday defended former president Lech Walesa against allegations he was an informer for the communist secret police.