The French Labour Minister Muriel Penicaud said Emmanuel Macron's plans over the unemployment benefits expansion for people resigning from their job position would cost €180M annually.
General Motors' plants are set to phase out 5K job positions in South Korea, keeping production at the current level, if Seoul approves its $2.8B loss-making operation proposal.
The world's largest automotive supplier Robert Bosch hired an "Internet of things" expert Tanja Rueckert from the business software developer SAP, who is set to join the firm on July 1.
On Friday, the Armenian Parliament elected the former Prime Minister Armen Sarkissian as the new President of the country to serve a term of seven years.
Renault's Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn did not exclude the possibility of mergers within the Renault-Mitsubishi-Nissan alliance, but stated it was not an objective.
On Friday, Toyota Motor said it would form a $2.8B joint venture with the group companies Aisin Seiki and Denso for the researching and developing self-driving technology.
General Motors' sales in South Korea plunged 19% to 36,725 cars in February, following the US carmaker's decision to close one of its plants in the country.
China is set to build bigger aircraft carriers, as the country has mastered its technical abilities to do so, following the President Xi Jinping's promise to turn the Chinese military into the worldclass fighting force by 2050.
In an interview with Reuters, the Peruvian Cabinet spokesperson revealed the country was going to declare its only oil pipeline a "strategic asset" and enable military to protect it from vandals.
On Friday, Haruhiko Kuroda, the BoJ Governor, ruled out a possibility of raising the central bank's long-term interest rate target before inflation hits 2%.
The Governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda stated on Friday that he would guide the country's monetary policy with a particular focus on reaching the BoJ's 2% inflation goal.
On Friday, Thailand's Election Commission began the registration for new political parties, marking the first official political activity allowed in the state since the coup in 2014.
Facebook announced that it finished the test that split the News Feed in two to check how users consumed news in six countries.
The President of South Korea Moon Jae-in is anticipated to nominate the central bank's new chief next on Monday next week.
Official data released on Friday showed that the Japanese unemployment rate dropped to 2.4% in January, whereas analysts expected it to remain unchanged at 2.8%.
Official data released on Friday showed that the Japanese unemployment rate dropped to 2.8% in January, whereas analysts expected it to remain unchanged at 2.8%.
The Statistics Bureau reported that its core CPI for Tokyo rose 0.9% year-on-year in February, following the prior month's increase of 0.7% and surpassing analysts' expectations for a 0.8% climb.
Procter & Gamble stated that the company cut digital ad spending by $200M in 2017, as reports showed that its advertisements ailed to reach the target audience effectively.
Chemical business DowDuPont stated that it anticipated the company's agriculture division to post record sales of $4.5B amid recent and further product launches.
Exxon Mobil is set to quit some of its joint ventures with Russia's company Rosneft, citing 2014 Western sanctions.
The US President Donald Trump made an announcement that he would impose a 25% tariff on imported steel and 10% on aluminium to protect the country's industry.
The US and EU competition regulators approved the €48B merger with Italia's eyewear producer Luxottica and France's lens maker Essilor, sending companies' shares higher.
The Chief Executive Officer of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg sold $500M in shares of the company in February to finance his Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
The EU Brexit negotiator stated that London's stance on the city's future relations with the bloc left the only option of the free trade agreement.