By Alabama Public Radio
North America – A Japanese newspaper reports Honda Motor Company will build a new automobile factory in North America as it tries to meet a surge in demand for its vehicles. That plant would be Honda's sixth in a region that now accounts for about half the company's annual global sales. Honda has two plants in Ohio, and one plant in Alabama, Canada and Mexico. The report says the new factory's location hasn't been determined, but it is expected to open in 2009 and produce 150-thousand vehicles a year. The company has declined comment, but is holding a news conference Wednesday in Tokyo on an undisclosed topic.