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

5 August 2009

International News

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Toyota reported a smaller-than-expected 77.82 billion yen ($819 million) quarterly loss and expects less red ink for the full year even as the world’s top automaker battles plunging sales and a strong yen (Pakistan Observer, p- 7)