Archive for May 2nd, 2008

Aussie film danced around China’s heavy hand

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

AUSTRALIAN producer Jane Scott did the Chinese filming of Mao’s Last Dancer without the approval of Chinese authorities, and despite a police raid and the burning down of a film equipment hire company.

Schapelle drawn into sister’s trial

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

SCHAPELLE Corby has been drawn into her sister’s defamation trial, with allegations her friends were planning a drug party in Indonesia at the time of her arrest.

Retailers ready to woo wary shoppers

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

CASH-strapped shoppers will have to be enticed to keep spending through a wave of interest-free promotions and giveaway sales over the next few months, according to Myer boss Bernie Brookes.

School brutality helped Tanner get tough

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

LINDSAY Tanner, the head of the federal Government’s razor gang charged with making the most unpopular cuts in this month’s budget, has revealed that regular beatings and the suffering he endured as a private schoolboy boarder from the age of 11 helped steel him for the task of government.

Young, rich - and big news in Bulgaria

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

GOLD Coast internet tycoon Daniel Tzvetkoff is oh-so-hot in Bulgaria thanks to an expensive house and refugee grandparents.

Tears and tributes flow for harbour victims

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

GRAPHIC stories of survival are emerging as a tragic counterpoint to the tragic deaths in the Sydney Harbour boat collision.

Girl, 8, saw stabbed mum die

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

AN eight-year-old girl has described her dad’s ’scary face’ as she found him standing in front of her bleeding mother with a knife.

Australian cities top suicide web searches

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

THREE Australian cities are among the top-ranked in the world when it comes to searching “how to commit suicide” on Google.

Tenant ‘came close to finding dungeon’

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

MAN who kept daughter as sex slave allegedly impersonated her on the phone to fool his wife.

Mercedes in tears as drug letters read out

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

MERCEDES Corby cries in court as letters in which she said she had found “the best mull” were read to a jury in her defamation case.