Pyongyang, October 31 (KCNA) -- Japan's Kyushu Electric Power Co. said Thursday that it plunged into the red in the April-September period and that its consolidated net loss totaled 13.31 billion yen.

Kyocera Corp. of Japan said Thursday its group net profit fell 24.5 percent from a year earlier to 46.77 billion yen in the April-September first half of fiscal 2011.

Meanwhile, Irish retail sales fell an average of 6 percent during the third quarter of 2011.