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

9 January 2010

International News

Political

• Tokyo (APP) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said Friday that Tokyo was considering boosting its security cooperation with South Korea, in the face of the threat of a possible North Korean attack  (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

Economic

• Tokyo (Reuters) Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said on Friday the government should not comment on foreign exchange rates, in an apparent rebuke to his new finance minister, who said he wanted the yen to weaken more (Daily Times, p- B5)