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

7 December 2009

International News

Economic

• Tokyo (Agencies) The Japanese government is expected to guarantee about 700 billion yen (7.73 billion dollars) in loans and other funds provided by financial institutions to help ailing Japan Airlines (The Frontier Post, p- 8, Pakistan Observer, p- 6 )

MISC

• Tokyo (Agencies) The number of deaths from the H1N1 swine flu virus has hit 100 in Japan (The Frontier Post, p- 6)