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

28 August 2009

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday admitted voters were unhappy with his party’s performance ahead of a weekend election as a survey showed the main opposition was set for a landslide win  (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan expressed reservations Thursday against a plan by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to expand the G8 Group of industrial powers into a G14 by including major emerging economies (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

• GOTEMBA (Picture by AFP) Japanese Ground Self-Defence Forces’ tanks move among umbrellas of barrage during a fire exercise “Fire Power 2009 in Fuji” at the Higashi-Fuji firing range on Thursday (The Nation, p- 1)

• BEIJING (By Chris Buckley / Reuters) Japan Democrat win could warm China ties (Dawn, p- 11)

• (Article by Yukio Hatoyama) Regional integration: A new path for Japan (Daily Times, p- A8)

Economic

• Kabul (NNI) Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) of Afghanistan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed the agreement on two of new Japanese technical cooperation, Tuberculosis Control Project Phase II and Urban Health System Strengthening Project (UHSSP)  (The Nation, p- 9)