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Honda Motor Co <7267.T> said all of its North American plants will resume normal production by the start of next month, following improvement in overall parts supply, which was hit by the Thailand floods.

Honda Motor Co said all of its North American plants will resume normal production by the start of next month, following improvement in overall parts supply, which was hit by the Thailand floods.

Sony Corp aims to boost sales of non-consumer products including electronic devices to an annual 2 trillion yen ($26 billion) from 1.5 trillion yen now within five years, the executive in charge of the business said on Monday.

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Essar Energy plc has been adjudged the fastest growing energy company in Platts 50 fastest growing of the Top 250 Energy Companies 2011.

Knee-deep in foul-smelling water, workers are piling office equipment, documents and food onto fiber boats that ferry them from one building on Hana Microelectronics' 12-acre company site to another with more space on higher floors.

Vietnamese refugee Hao Truong was reunited with his son at Rochester International Airport in Rochester, N.Y., after 34 years of being separated following a pirate attack off the coast of Vietnam.

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BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has moved next month's Asian developer conference from Bangkok to Singapore due to flooding in the Thai capital.

Apple will displace Hewlett-Packard as the world's top PC maker in early 2012, Canalys estimates. The report lumped tablet sales in with PC sales, arguing that tablets have redefined the personal computer.

Year-to-date, company shares have plunged about 93 percent.

Taiwan's Acer Inc, the world's No.4 PC vendor by sales, expects its recent integration with Founder Technology and increased brand acceptance to help grow its China sales by between 20-25 percent next year, said the firm's head of China operations.

Taiwan's Acer Inc, the world's No.4 PC vendor by sales, expects its recent integration with Founder Technology and increased brand acceptance to help grow its China sales by between 20-25 percent next year, said the firm's head of China operations.

Hewlett-Packard Co will ramp up spending on research, sales and turning around its flagging services arm in 2012, after its fourth-quarter profit fell nearly 91 percent on weak computer sales.

Larsen and Toubro, India's biggest engineering conglomerate, is targeting overseas revenue growth as part of a strategy to beat a slowdown in Asia's third-largest economy.

Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will run in a parliamentary by-election expected by the end of the year, a top party official said Monday, giving legitimacy to moves toward democracy after decades of military rule.

Octogenarian billionaire investor Warren Buffett arrived on his first visit to Japan on Monday, fanning speculation about his possible investments in the country's battered stock market.

Japan's exports fell at the fastest pace in five months in the year to October and the worse than expected result signaled more weakness ahead as a strong yen and sputtering global growth weigh on the recuperating economy.

World Gold Council's third-quarter demand report showed central bank buying going far above most analysts estimates. Analysis shows the mystery buyers to be China or India.

Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra declared central Bangkok safe from flooding.

Marvell Technology Group gave a cautious revenue forecast as widespread flooding in Thailand hurts demand for its hard-drive controllers, but upbeat news about expansion in China gave the chipmaker's stock a bump.