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Honda Motor Co. announced on Wednesday that it plans to build new plants and increase car output as the Japanese carmaker ramps up global capacity to meet the growing demand for its fuel efficient models.

Some 120,000 barrels a day of new high-quality, low-sulphur oil will start flowing from Asian fields this quarter, putting strong regional crude differentials under some pressure and boosting light product yields.

Asian countries were warned on Monday against complacency that another Asian financial crisis could not hit the region.

U.S. private equity firm Texas Pacific Group is expected to bid for Singapore's microchip-testing firm United Test and Assembly Center as part of a consortium, banking sources said on Tuesday.

From depressed investment to bulging foreign exchange reserves, Asia's economies are still deeply marked by the legacy of the financial crisis that engulfed the region a decade ago.

Research released on Friday shows that the PC market in Asia is seeing heavy growth this year, with shipments expected to rise 15 percent off healthy notebook gains.

Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont's pledge to put people's happiness above economic growth may not be a sign for foreign investors to hit the panic button.

United Nations economists predict Thailand's economy can grow, stating that gross domestic product has the potential to reach 4.7 percent next year provided the new government maintains stability.

The Japanese Olympic Commission (JOC) will appoint Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara as the director-general of Tokyo Olympic Bidding Committee for the 2016 Summer Games, the commission said on Friday.

Financial regulators across the world need to work together to keep checks on the increasingly powerful $1.2 trillion (810 billion pound) hedge fund industry

Almost a decade after being battered by the Asian financial crisis, emerging market investors are getting a worrying reminder about political risk from the streets of Budapest to the barracks of Bangkok.

Thailand's military coup leaders faced international calls for a swift return to democracy on Wednesday, after vowing to choose a new prime minister within two weeks to replace ousted Thaksin Shinawatra.

Production at Japanese auto makers' factories in Thailand was disrupted on Wednesday after the country's armed forces seized power in Bangkok, with Nissan Motor Co., Mazda Motor Corp. and others calling off work for the day.

Clothing label, Juicy Couture said on Monday it is expanding by distributing its products to Asian countries as part of a partnership with Lane Crawford Joyce Group, an Asian international brand group.

The Thai baht staged its largest one-day fall in three years on Tuesday after Thai armed forces said they had taken control of Bangkok, which led to a broad-based decline in a number of Asian currencies.

The Thai government could be a threat to the expansion of Tescos in the country. Small shopkeepers in the country are concerned that the growth of large supermarkets is a threat to their business.

Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said on Friday that G7 financial heads would discuss exchange rates when they meet in Singapore on September 16, but he declined to say if the yen would be at the center of those talks.

World sugar prices are likely to defy gravity in the next 12 months as key producing countries churn out ethanol as an alternative fuel after oil prices spiked to stratospheric highs.