  Major new experimental efforts on detecting CP violation in $B$ decays will
very soon go on the air. Recent developments suggest that final state
interaction phases in exclusive decays of $B$ are unlikely to be small
indicating the possibility of observable direct CP asymmetries in these
channels. CLEO results on charmless hadronic modes suggest penguin amplitudes
are rather big implying that the extraction of $\alpha$ from $B^0$-$\bar B^0$
alone will be difficult, thus necessitating also information from direct
CP\null. Importance of $B(B_s)$ decays to two vectors for model independent
tests of electroweak penguins and for extraction of $\alpha(\gamma)$ is
emphasized. Inclusive $b\to sg^\ast$ and related modes, e.g. $B\to \eta^\prime
X_s$, are very good probes of CP-odd phase(s) due to beyond the standard model
physics. On the other hand, $b\to dg^\ast$ and related modes, e.g. $B\to
\eta^\prime X_d$ are more suitable for CP violation due to the CKM phase. Two
body $b$-quark decays: $b\to Mq_f$ leading to semi-inclusive, $B$ decays, $B\to
MX$ (with $2\lsim E_M\lsim2.8$ GeV), are very interesting and important. Their
theory is relatively clean; partial rate asymmetries may be large in several
cases (e.g. $M=K^\ast, K, \rho, \pi...$) and a few cases provide very good
probe of electroweak penguins.
