EDF and E.ON have cooperated with Nissan Motor over services development to allow power that is stored in electric car batteries to be returned back to grid.
Nippon Life Insurance's President Hiroshi Shimizu stated it was actively exploring merger and acquisition options in the United States and Asia, seeking for the world's biggest life insurance markets.
On Monday, GlaxoSmithKline announced its Chairman Philip Hamptonwill would leave the company after almost four years in his role, adding it had been already searching for a successor.
China reported on Monday its December aluminium surged to its record high of 3.05M, up 8.2% from November, for the second month in a row, showing an 11.3% rise from the same month a year earlier.
On Monday, Prasert Prasarttong-osoth has resigned as the CEO of Bangkok Airways and Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, after the country's watchdog barred the Thai tycoon from holding these offices due to share manipulation allegations.
Sandfire Resources, the copper miner, announced on Monday it had approached MOD Resources with a $63M worth bid, seeking a potential merger of the two firms.
Sports Direct head Mike Ashley has entered talks over rescuing HMV, the music retailer, from administration, as it was hit by the severe trading conditions in the British retail sector, Sky News report showed on Sunday.
The Chinese industrial output increased 6.2% year-over-year in 2018, slowing from 6.6% growth in the prior year, official data revealed on Monday.
Confidence among Japan's manufacturers fell for a third month in succession in January to the lowest level in two years, as worries over the global economy's health and trade tensions took a toll over the corporate sector.
Asking prices for the UK property rose at the weakest pace since 2012 due to ongoing Brexit worries, suggesting lingering weakness in Britain's house prices.
China's economy expanded 6.4% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2018, official data revealed, in line with forecasts and slower than the prior quarter's 6.5% growth.
The Chinese eastern-central coastal province Jiangsu has approved 24 wind power projects worth $18B with a total capacity of 6.7 gigawatts to boost clean energy production.
The Chinese forestry sector output reached $1.1T in 2018, a 2.88% increase from the prior year, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration reports.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent condolences to his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador over a deadly pipeline blast in central Mexico.
The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Chad, a Muslim-majority country, to announce the resumption of diplomatic relations between two nations.
The non-oil trade between Malaysia and Iran reached $548.77M in the first nine months of the fiscal year 2018, the economic news agency in Iran Eghtesad Online reports.
The first China-Myanmar economic cooperation zone of 2,430 hectares will be established along the Kunlong-Chinshwehaw border area in Shan state, the official Global New Light of Myanmar reports.
The growth of China's tourism sector and related industries accelerated in 2018 to $550B, an increase of 12.8% compared to 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics reports.
China and Afghanistan should further improve bilateral relations, the former Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta says at a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan Liu Jingsong.
The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency affirmed the Greek credit rating at B+ with a positive outlook as the market awaits the first Greek bond issue in almost a year.
The Japanese government welcomes the second summit between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United States, the Japanese Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya says.
China-US diplomatic relations have a profound impact on the maintenance of world peace and prosperity, the Chinese Consul General Wang Donghua says.
India is likely to become the top trade partner of the United Arab Emirates by 2020, the UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment Thani Ahmed Al-Zayoudi says.
Rheinmetall, the German arms maker, is seeking to file a lawsuit against Germany, after the government's decision to halt all weapons exports to Saudi Arabia due to journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.