Jakarta, June 17: The Indonesian parliament Tuesday passed a Sharia or Islamic banking bill into law, paving the way for the government to ensure legal certainty in running the sharia banking industry in the world's most-populous Muslim country.

PARIS -(Dow Jones)- The French Senate will debate the French government's law on the modernization of the economy from June 30, the French finance ministry said Friday.

You know Michigan's economy is in a world of hurt when Chrysler LLC President Tom LaSorda, tiring of journalists asking how long his company can survive, snaps, "We're gonna rebound; it's just a question of when."

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) - World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick arrived in Moscow on June 16 to discuss urgent problems in the global economy, including the financial and food crises and aid to the poorest countries, wit

CAREERS MONDAY, MAY 5 Career-Prospectors, www.career-prospectors.com, a job-search networking group, meets every Monday at 7:30 a.m., in the conference room at Long & Foster, 9321 Midlothian Turnpike. Details: Michael Soden, (804) 594-7065, or Fred Carrer