On Tuesday, Taiwanese court has sentenced the former leader Ma Ying-jeou to four months in jail over the information leak connected to national security, according to legal documents.
On Monday, France's telecoms firm Iliad announced it had appointed Thomas Reynaud as the new CEO on the back of the reorganisation of the company's top management.
Vodafone's CEO Vittorio Colao is set to step down from his position in October, following 10 years of leading the world's second biggest mobile operator, and will be replaced by the current Financial Director Nick Read.
On Tuesday, a Malaysian aviation regulator has denied its pressure on the budget carrier AirAsia to halt its extra fights that were aimed to aid voters return home for the recent election of Malaysia.
On Tuesday, South Korea and North Korea agreed to hold the high-level inter-Korea negotiations on May 16, as the countries seek to discuss the necessary steps to uphold their pledge to denuclearise the Korean peninsula.
On Monday, Amazon.com stated it would adopt a new policy in its director board, seeking to promote diversity in it, and adding that women and minorities should be among the nominees to the board.
The Japanese firm Toshiba is expecting its annual net income to surge 33%, boosted on its planned $18B memory chip unit sale, the company stated on Tuesday.
Google has been placed under investigation by Australian authorities after claims were made that the company harvests data from Android users, who even unwittingly pay for the data being transferred during the harvesting.
The ruling party in India on Monday was leading the state election. As the votes were being counted on Tuesday morning, the party lacked only a little bit to have outright majority.
On Tuesday morning, media quoted US bond yields as the cause for the US Dollar's sudden rise against the rest of the global currencies.
The Ambassador of the US to the Chinese People's republic on Tuesday announced that the US wants to give China a timetable for opening up its markets to US exports.
Official data showed that Chinese fixed-asset investment expansion slowed to 7.0% in the period from January to April 2018, missing expectations for easing slightly to 7.4%.
Chinese retail sales increased 9.4% year-over-year in April, missing forecasts for a 10% rise, after a 10.1% growth pace seen in the previous month, the official report indicated.
Chinese industrial output increased 7.0% in April, compared to the prior year, much more than analysts anticipated, the official report revealed on Tuesday.
China's real estate investment rose 10.3% in the four-month period from January to April of this year from a year before, while property sales weakened, facing government cooling measures.
On Monday, Chinese state news agency Xinhua informed that Chinese tech giant Tencent obtained a license from the Shenzhen Transport Bureau to test self-driving vehicles in the city of Shenzhen.
On Monday, Dutch government declared that it had decided to terminate usage of Russian Kaspersky anti-virus software because of the Russian government's cyber program, targeting Dutch interests.
On Monday, French newspaper Le Figaro reported that a board member of Air France-KLM Anne-Marie Couderc is going to be appointed as a temporary CEO of the alliance after the resignation of Jean-Marc Janaillac.
On Monday, the Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki declared that both countries will unite against EU budget cuts imposed by Brussels.
Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk informed employees that a company will go through a reorganisation because of the manufacturing problems, senior employees departures and two recent crashes of self-driving cars.
US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert claimed that in recent days the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have had a discussion with British, French and German counterparts about cooperation over Iran.
On Monday, the finance ministry of Russia claimed that Viktor Vekgelberg's Renova Group will get a credit line from Promsvyazbank to support business after the company was hit by the US sanctions.
On Monday, the Defence Minister of Germany Ursula von der Leyen claimed that Germany is planning to increase spending on military and defence from 1.2% to 1.5% by 2025.
Pablo Salame and Isabelle Ealet, two co-heads of securities division of Goldman Sachs, are set to retire in June after 20-year-long stints at the Bank, the internal memo showed.