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

26th November 2009

Local News

Culture

• Islamabad (Staff Report / APP) An exhibition titled “ World Heritage in Japan: Exhibition of Photo Panels from Japan” was organized by the Embassy of Japan and The Japan Foundation at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) here on Wednesday (The Nation, p- 14,Daily Times, p- B2, Dawn, p- 15, Pakistan Observer, p- 9, The News, p- 20, Daily Express, p- 2, Nawa-i-Waqt, p- 2)

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Wednesday he was “surprised” about media reports that his millionaire mother gave him dubious political donations (Pakistan Observer, p- 3, The Frontier Post, p- 6)

• Tokyo (APP) Japan plans to soon send a team of health experts to Canada to investigate allergic reactions to swine flu vaccinations from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a government official said Wednesday (The Frontier Post, p- 6, Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan posted a trade surplus for a ninth straight month in October as the world’s number two economy slowly emergesfrom its deep slump thanks to recovery in the rest of Asia, data showed Wednesday (Daily Times, p- B5)

MISC

 (AFP) Japanese cops cross-dress for bag snatch dragnet (Daily Times, p- B8)