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

1st December 2009

International News

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s debt-laden government said on Monday it planned a new round of stimulus spending worth more than $ 31 billion to prop up a feeble economic recovery that is threatened by the strong yen (Dawn, p- 17, Pakistan Observer, p- 7, The Nation, p- 17)

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s factory output last month rose slightly but short of market expectations, data showed on Monday as the government announced stimulus spending to boost a recovery threatened by the strong yen (Dawn, p- 18)

MISC

• Tokyo (Picture released by the Emperor Family) Prince Akishino, Princess and their children in the garden of Emperor’s Palace (Daily Express, p- 10)