LONDON-Despite an uncertain business climate, British manufacturing held steady in the last three months of 2007, with export orders growing even faster than they did earlier in the year. MORE

TORONTO-Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is threatening to impose trade barriers on automobiles imported from South Korea unless that country opens up its market to cars and trucks made in Canada. MORE

DETROIT-As it marks 100 years of doing business, General Motors Corp. hopes to focus on the technological and business promise of its next century as much as it commemorates its storied history. MORE

NEW DEHLI, India-With the low-price Nano at one end of its product line and the Land Rover-Jaguar deal at the other, is Tata Motors trying to do too much too fast? MORE

TOLEDO, OH-Chrysler will invest $28 million in its machining plant in Perrysburg Township to produce a new line of torque converters. MORE

SEOUL-North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is reportedly telling schools to teach children about computers from an early age so his impoverished country can keep up with the rest of the world technologically. MORE

BRUSSELS-Management and unions at Ford Motor Co.'s vehicle assembly plant in Belgium reached a provisional deal early on Monday to end a strike that has stopped production since Thursday. MORE

EUREKA, MO-Contractors have finished construction work on a new Visteon Corp. (Van Buren Township, MI) manufacturing and distribution facility in Eureka, which will eventually supply cockpit components to the Chrysler assembly plant in St. Louis. MORE

MOBILE, AL-European airplane manufacturer Airbus (Toulouse, France) has announced that any aerial refueling tankers supplies to the U.S. Air Force will be assembled in the United States. MORE

DETROIT-General Motors Corp. is saying it will offer retirement incentives to 46,000 of its hourly workers next month as part of a plan to cut labor costs. Analysts expect up to 20,000 workers to leave the company. MORE