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

28 October 2009

International News

Political

• Tokyo (Agencies) Hopes are growing in Japan that Barack Obama will become the first sitting US President to visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, the only two cities ever devastated by atomic bombs (The Frontier Post, p- 6)

• Tokyo (Agencies) Japan is considering sending warships to help refuel vessels combating piracy off Somalia after its current refueling mission in support of the US led operations in Afghanistan ends early next year, officials said Tuesday (The Frontier Post, p- 6, Daily Express, p- 10)

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s finance minister said on Tuesday that the dollar was still the world’s strongest currency and it was natural for Tokyo to keep large stockpiles of the green-back (Daily Times, p- B5)

• Tokyo (AFP) Japanese high-tech giant Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday that it had lost about 630 million dollars in the six months to September due to a strong yen and weak economy (Pakistan Observer, p- 6)

• Tokyo (Agencies) Japanese government incentives for green cars and strong sales in China helped Honda Motor Co. avoid red ink for the first half and raise its full year profit forecast (The Frontier Post, p- 8)

MISC

• Tokyo (AP) A Japanese navy destroyer and a South Korean container ship collided on Tuesday off southern Japan, sparking fires on both ships and injuring three crew members, officials said (Dawn, p- 11)

• Tokyo (AFP) The Japanese eyewear company behind Sarah Palin’s designer glasses has come up with a high-tech solution for obsessive video gamers and bookworms whose eyes dry out from lack of blinking (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)