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The article reports on the plan of JFE Steel Corp. to increase its production of crude-steel by about 15% to meet increasing demand in Asia in 2010, which brings back the company's output to levels before the global economic crisis.

This section offers news briefs related to Asian economies. The Chinese government has dismissed speculation that it will conduct a massive selloff of U.S. dollar holdings. The industrial output of India grew by 9.8 percent in June 2007, slowing the pace from the previous month. Beijing in China will hold a test drill for keeping cars off the road during its 2008 Olympic Games.

Presents business update in Asia-Pacific as of March 16, 2005, including the increase in China's value-added industrial output for January and February.

Presents news briefs in Asia as of October 29, 2004, including a decline in Japanese industrial production from September to August 2004.

Presents update on the economic and business sector of countries in the Asia Pacific region as of August 23, 2000. Export orders and industrial production of Taiwan in July 2000; Percentage of stake in Hyundai Motor sold by Chung Ju Yung, the founder of the Hyundai Group of South Korea; Loans of Thailand's commercial banks.

Presents business-related news briefs in Asia as of April 1999. Increase of the industrial productivity of Japan in March 1999; Efforts of Toyota Motor to create a women-friendly workplace; Plan of PricewaterhouseCoopers to lay off hundreds of employees in Hong Kong, China; Decision of Standard Chartered Bank to acquire Thailand's Nakornthon Bank.

Presents business-related news briefs in Asia as of March 1999. Industrial productivity posted by Japan in February; Acquisition deal signed by a unit of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering in Taiwan; Possible support of the European Union for a Thailand statesman to head the World Trade Organization; Increase of executive hiring in Asia.

Reports on the impact of the General Motors Corporation's strikes and the Asian financial crisis on the industrial sector, in the United States (US). Decline in production at factories, mines and utilities for June 1998; Percentage by which overall industrial production declined; What the US Federal Reserve attributed the decline to; Comments from Veronika White, an economist with First Union Corporation of Charlotte, North Carolina.