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

19 January 2010

International News

Political

• Tokyo (By Isabel Reynolds / Reuters) A feud over a US Marine base overshadows the 50th anniversary of the US-Japan security treaty, but experts say the allies have no option other than to iron out their problems as they try to engage a rising China  (Dawn ,p -10, Daily Times, p- A9)

• Tokyo (Reuters) Voter support for Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and his party has fallen due to a funding scandal linked to his powerful No.2 party executive, three media surveys showed on Monday, raising the risk of a policy stalemate (The Nation, p- 11)

Economic

• Tokyo (AFP) Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada told his Chinese counterpart Sunday that Tokyo would take “action” if China violates a 2008 agreement over disputed gas exploration projects (Daily Times, p- B5)