"Stores and businesses in North Korea have mostly resumed production, " said the official, who is in regular contact with North Korean counterparts.
The handful of aluminium-bodied cars in production have mostly been low-volume luxury models, such as the Honda NSX, the Audi A8 and the Jaguar XJ.
And consumer electronics production has mostly shifted abroad.
The rise in output came mostly on an increase in production at Fort Knox in Alaska and Kupol in Russia, the firm said, and the rise was in line with expectations, based on the full-year mining plan.
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The factory employs 5, 700 people to produce around 500, 000 cars per year, mostly the popular Qashqai, and production is expanding.
The company's production increased which was mostly down to acquisitions.
Instead, the PGMs could be underpinned by the restarting of auto production in Japan after it was taken mostly off-line following the earthquake and tsunami earlier this year.
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The Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf are slowly putting cars on the road, mostly in California, as the companies ramp up production and start delivering to their patient customers.
Giordano has also been able to get affordable versions of the latest street-culture-inspired styles from the idea phase to store shelves at an amazing speed - mostly by pushing suppliers to meet strict timetables and moving production closer to the stores.
The notoriously conservative Met audience mostly cheered the Tony-winning director following Monday night's production premiere, with only a few boos scattered in.
Platinum production, for instance, faces no end of trouble, being mostly based in South Africa.
Grandiose claims to be providing the key to feeding the world have been challenged by development agencies from the start, as hunger is mostly caused by failures of distribution, not the total level of world food production.
European stocks mostly declined, with the Stoxx Europe 600 down 0.4%, after industrial-production data in the euro zone showed output fell in November from the previous year.
Kevin Watters, the head of the bank's mortgage operations, said his business has a staff of about 45, 000, and reductions are planned mostly among employees dealing with defaults, which have come down, and also among employees related to mortgage production as volume declines.
BP's return on investment in exploration and production could increase to 18.6% next year from 13.6% in 1999, mostly because of cheap reserves, says Terreson.
Production at the world's third-largest platinum producer came to a halt as workers, mostly rock drillers, embarked on a wildcat wage strike last Friday over a wage dispute.
The sector has been so beaten down that the small exploration and production players seem to have lost what little following they had, and so recent good news has gone mostly unnoticed.
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