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

17 March 2010

International News

Political

• Tokyo (AFP) Japan’s centre-left government scored its first triumph in an otherwise dismal six months Tuesday when it pushed a signature campaign bill through the lower house of parliament (Pakistan Observer, p- 3)

 Economic

• Tokyo (By Irfan Siddiqui) The world economy has long been led by the United States and Europe, but in the first half of the 21st century the dynamism in Asia will drastically change the paradigm of the global economy, the Japan Business Federation chairman Fujio Mitarai said in his opening speech at the Asian Business Leaders Summit (The News, p- 18)

MISC

• (AFP) Japan may ease visa rules for foreign nurses, dentists (Daily Times, p- B8)