Japanese and Chinese trade officials are expected to hold talks in Shanghai during the APEC trade minister meeting this week. Toyota and Honda said they had not received any official information about import curbs and were not in a position to comment. Toyota exported around 10,000 vehicles to China in 2000, while Honda said its exports were only in the hundreds. It also denied misleading investors about the number of developers it had in India. The paper had no immediate comment on AremisSoft's statement.
Security is still the main issue for the fields' closure, however.
Exxon said the closure was forced by numerous security incidents in the province, where separatist rebels have been seeking independence for decades. The move will allow users of Sega's Dreamcast console to connect with Sony's PlayStation 2 . The announcement came as little surprise to market watchers, since both companies said in January they would collaborate in online game applications and services. Sega, which recently pulled the plug on its unprofitable game hardware business to focus on software, plans to release a new version of its popular online game software series in August for Dreamcast. This will be followed by the release of the same titles for PCs and PlayStation 2.