WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT Barack Obama on Thursday announced a jobs forum to be held at the White House in December, as the United States struggles with a 10.2 per cent unemployment rate.
'In December, we'll be holding a forum at the White House on jobs and economic growth,' he said before departing on a trip to Asia.
PHNOM PENH - CAMBODIA expelled a top Thai diplomat and Thailand reciprocated on Thursday, deepening a huge row over Phnom Penh's naming of fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as an economics adviser.
The tit-for-tat moves came as Mr Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup and is living abroad to avoid a jail term for graft, delivered a lecture in the Cambodian capital in which he accused Thailand's rulers of 'false patriotism'.
COLOMBO - SRI Lanka's top general, who led the battle to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and ended the island's 30-year civil war, has resigned from his post, an official said on Thursday.
General Sarath Fonseka's resignation comes amid growing media reports that he is planning to contest the next presidential election as an opposition candidate, challenging incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Fonseka has not confirmed the media reports.
LONDON - BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday doctors and other professionals from outside Europe would be prevented from taking up jobs in the country, in a crackdown on immigration.
Ahead of a major speech on immigration later on Thursday, Brown pledged to tighten the points based system for determining which migrants can work in Britain, saying immigration would fall under his government.
