Toyota Motor Corp said Friday it will resume car production at all its plants in Japan at half capacity from April 18 to 27 after the March earthquake and tsunami forced it to halt manufacturing due to shortages of parts and power.
The rapid growth of the five top emerging economies is expected to continue in the next five years, but more foreign capital inflows and high inflation may bring overheating risks, a Chinese academic report said.
Stocks fell Thursday after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan. The losses moderated after a tsunami warning was lifted.
Britain's top share index fell on Thursday after a second large earthquake to strike Japan within a month knocked investor confidence, with traders wary of further losses once Asian markets open.
Spain's finance minister defended the nation's hurting economy on Tuesday, insisting that the country would not end up joining its neighbor Portugal in requesting a bailout.
Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto PLC said Thursday it has achieved its goal of gaining a 47 percent stake in Riversdale Mining Ltd, and has come close to taking a majority stake.
The overall global space economy rose to $276.52 billion in government budgets and commercial revenue in 2010, a 7.7 percent increase over 2009.
A key gauge of Japan's current economic conditions rose for a fourth straight month in February, data from Japanese Cabinet Office showed Wednesday.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus lost his final court appeal Tuesday to remain in control of the pioneering microlending bank he founded nearly three decades ago to lift Bangladeshis out of poverty.
Asia's emerging economies are spearheading a global recovery and the challenge for policymakers is to normalise policy to head off inflation and overheating, the Asian Development Bank said on Wednesday.
The global economy is forecast to grow by a solid pace of 4.3 percent this year and 4.5 percent next year, the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics said here on Monday.
China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange said Friday that the country saw rapid growth in cross-border renminbi trade settlements last year as more Chinese and foreign-funded companies chose to pay and be paid in renminbi, the Chinese currency.
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