Australia jobs rebound, unemployment dips anew

SYDNEY: Australian employment staged a surprisingly strong revival in June while the jobless rate ticked down toward three-decade lows, keeping alive the risk that a drum-tight labour market could fuel inflationary pressures. The Australian dollar jumped half a U.S. cent after the government reported employment rose by a net 29,800 in June, easily beating forecasts of a 10,000 gain. That made up for a revised 25,600 drop in May

Media free again in Parliament

KUALA LUMPUR: Members of the media are free to move around again in the Parliament lobby, after the barricades that were set up to confine them in a corner were removed Wednesday. Reporters,...

Tibet to Re-open to Foreign Tourism

Fires in Tibet capital, Lhasa after protests, 14 Mar 2008China says it will reopen Tibet to foreign tourists, after closing it during...
Chinese riot policemen aboard a truck patrol in front of the Potala palace in Lhasa on June 20. Tibet will reopen to foreign tourists on June 25, China's state-run Xinhua news agency has said, quoting a tourism...
by Dan Martin 18 minutes ago BEIJING(AFP) - China will allow foreign tourists back into Tibet from Wednesday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported, lifting a ban imposed after it cracked down on anti-Chinese...

China Loosens Olympics Reporting Rules

Foreign television broadcasters have reached an accord with Chinese authorities to allow live news coverage during the Beijing Olympics -- including from Tiananmen Square -- settling one of the major remaining roadblocks to the Games that will begin in just a month. TV companies, some of which have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the rights to broadcast the Olympics, had been in a stalemate with Beijing officials since May over the ability to report live via satellite outside

Kurd rebels kidnap 3 German tourists

Kurdish guerillas have kidnapped three German tourists on a climbing expedition in eastern Turkey, a local governor was reported as saying on Wednesday

Vidya patch up with Sarkar

Vidya Balan and Pradeep Sarkar recently patched up their differences. The two were not on talking terms after Vidya refused to do Sarkar’s Laaga Chunri Mein Daag (the role went to Rani Mukerji).

Ellen Gray: Holly Hunter thrilled to return as boundary-pushing cop in'Saving Grace'

By Ellen Gray Philadelphia Daily News Daily News TV Critic SAVING GRACE. 10 p.m. Monday, TNT. THE PHRASE "passion project" gets thrown around a lot in Hollywood, but in television, where even the brightest ideas can lose luster in the grind of a weekly series, passion like Holly Hunter's can be hard to sustain. But as the Academy Award-winning actress ("The Piano") returns to TNT next week for Season 2 of "Saving Grace," an offbeat drama