As firms like Foxconn shift factories away from higher-cost centers, they are discovering that workers in new locations across China are not as abundant as they had expected, prompting multinationals and their suppliers to use millions of teenage students from vocational and technical schools on assembly lines.
As firms like Foxconn shift factories away from higher-cost centres in the Pearl River Delta in southern Guangdong province, they are discovering that workers in new locations across China are not as abundant as they had expected.
DETROIT, Jan 4- The new Fiat 500 e achieved a rating of 116 miles per gallon equivalent in testing by the Environmental Protection Agency, the third-highest rating for electric vehicles in the United States, the EPA said on Friday. Miles per gallon equivalent, or MPGe, is a rating devised by the EPA to illustrate how a vehicle compares with a gasoline-powered one.
TOKYO, Jan 4- Japan's Nikkei share average climbed to a 22- month high on its first trading day of 2013, as a deal in Washington to avert the "fiscal cliff" buoyed investor risk appetite and the weaker yen lifted exporters such as Toyota Motor Corp. The Nikkei ended up 2.8 percent at 10,688.11, its highest close since March 4, 2011.
TOKYO, Jan 4- Japan's Nikkei share average rose to a 22- month high on its first trading day of 2013 as a deal in Washington to avert the "fiscal cliff" buoyed investor risk appetite and a weaker yen lifted exporters like Toyota Motor Corp. at 10,666.10 after hitting 10,734.23, its highest intraday level since March 2011.
TOKYO, Jan 4- Japan's Nikkei share average rose to a 22- month high on its first trading day of 2013 as a deal in Washington to avert the "fiscal cliff" buoyed investors' risk appetites and a weaker yen lifted exporters.
*Chrysler passes General Motors, moves into second place. Ford Motor Co of Canada was the top-selling automaker in Canada for the third year in a row while Chrysler, which was in third place in 2011, knocked General Motors from the No. 2 perch.
*Toyota, Honda gain market share in 2012. General Motors Co posted December U.S. sales growth of 5 percent compared with the year-earlier month, Ford Motor Co increased sales 2 percent and Chrysler Group LLC's sales rose 10 percent.
*Toyota, Honda gained market share in 2012. General Motors Co posted December U.S. sales growth of 5 percent compared with the year-earlier month, Ford Motor Co increased sales 2 percent and Chrysler Group LLC's sales rose 10 percent.
*Toyota, Honda seen making market-share gains. Toyota Motor Corp reported a 9 percent U.S. sales increase for December, which met analysts' expectations. Both Toyota and Honda Motor Co, which reports monthly and annual sales later on Thursday, and are expected to end the year with much better sales gains than their U.S. competitors.
SEOUL, Jan 2- South Korea's biggest automakers Hyundai Motor Co and affiliate Kia Motors Corp are targeting a 4 percent increase in global sales this year to a combined 7.41 million vehicles, their slowest growth since 2003..
*Hyundai's new plants in China, Brazil to drive growth this year. SEOUL, Jan 2- South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co and affiliate Kia Motors Corp are targeting a 4 percent increase in global sales this year to a combined 7.41 million vehicles, their slowest growth since 2003..
TOKYO, Dec 28- Japan's Nikkei average climbed to a 21- month high on Friday, posting its best yearly gain since 2005, as rising expectations of aggressive monetary stimulus under new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe weakened the yen and bolstered exporters' shares.
TOKYO, Dec 28- Japan's Nikkei average climbed to a 21- month high on Friday, posting its best yearly gain since 2005, as the yen weakened further on rising expectations of aggressive monetary stimulus under new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Exporters were in demand, with Toyota Motor Corp, Honda Motor Co, Canon Inc and Nikon Corp, all up between 1.1 and 2.3 percent.
TOKYO, Dec 28- Japan's Nikkei average rose to a 21- month high on Friday, heading for its best yearly gain since 2005 as exporters were buoyed by a weaker yen on expectations of aggressive monetary stimulus under new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
TOKYO, Dec 28- Japan's Nikkei average rose to a 21- month high on Friday, heading for its best yearly gain since 2005, as exporters were buoyed by a weaker yen on expectations of aggressive monetary stimulus under new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.