From the News, Nation, Dawn, Pakistan Observer, Daily Times, Frontier Post, Nawa-i-Waqt (Urdu), Jang (Urdu) and daily Express (Urdu) newspapers                                                                            

17 August 2009

International News

Misc

•  Tokyo (AFP) A Japanese boy attends the Dream City building event organized by LEGO education here on Sunday. Some 1,000 children and their families gathered for the event and more than 100,000 LEGO bricks were used for the Dream City display (Dawn, p- 10)

Economic 

• Tokyo (AFP) Two thirds of big Japanese companies expect the country’s economy to recover by the middle of next year, according to a survey by Kyodo News released Sunday (Pakistan Observer, p- 6)