Over the past three years, South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co has invested 600 billion won ($A740 million) in developing new engines and expanding its commercial vehicle plant, it said.

World trade can rise and fall,  inventions can come and go but this is major !

 The appreciating Chinese yuan and rising raw material costs will lead to more expensive Barbie dolls for parents across the globe from early next year, the world's biggest toy-maker warned.

 They where the market drivers for a while - lets see how they cope with the new challenges from the Chinese and Indians

 The Empire Strikes Back - well maybe not quite,  but there is an awakening of the sleeping giant

 It's all a big game- a few months - who cares - a few million- chicken feed

In my column a couple of weeks ago, I said that I had switched on my TV and watched the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner flying.      

The there is the  Dreamliner delay  

 They certainly need a good power source on those rigs - 

Every cloud has a silver lining -

 HOLLISTER, Calif. (AP) — Deborah Evanoff thought she'd traded her frantic Silicon Valley career for a lazier pace when she took over the low-tech toy company her parents founded in the late 1960s.

There is not much that I can say about this one - go and have a look - then tell us all what you think

 This is when the magic just happens - it sort of blows me away - some say that should happen more often !!

 Like enormous jewel factories in the sky, the chaotic environments around some supermassive black holes crank out prodigious amounts of glass, rubies and sapphires , a new study finds.

 Plenty of "good news" stories - to balance the "not so good news"

Made. In. China . Those three words are shaping up to be a marketer's worst nightmare. After a year of massive toy recalls, tainted toothpaste scares, and poisonous pet food incidents, consumers around the globe are thinking twice—or more—before buying Chinese-made goods.

 Does anyone really want a comment on this one - the title says it all !!

Andy Woerner and his crazy rocketeer friends have built a 21-foot long X-Wing model that can actually fly. Yes, this is a real X-Wing powered by four solid-fuel rocket engines complete with radio-controlled moving wings.

For all of you out there getting worried -  about about Rolls Royce 's ability to supply enough cars - you can now relax

Rolls-Royce Motors plans to recruit another 300-400 workers and add a second assembly line at its Goodwood, Sussex, plant to cope with what the BMW-owned luxury carmaker describes as "unprecedented customer demand". 

 Shine a light on me - good while it lasted but there's a new product out there - ironically the new product has some deficiency too

 Maybe there are chinks in the Mighty German economy - after all - I always had a soft spot for this company after they produced the Beetle variant - a long time ago now

 Looks like a lot of work coming up for the guys who have to design and install