China's Baidu reported its net profit jumped to about $437M in the Q1 of 2020 despite the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.
The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to reduce Huawei Technologies' involvement in the UK 5G network in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The British lawmaker Tom Tugendhat wrote in a newspaper on Saturday that the government must protect local companies against the acquisition from foreigners.
The Exchange Bondholder Group stated on Saturday that it was invited to sign NDA and continue debt talks with the Argentinian government.
The Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez stated on Saturday that the government was planning to reopen borders for tourists in July.
On Friday, the US Commerce Department added 33 Chinese companies and institutions to its economic blacklist for assisting China to spy on the Uighur population.
Mitsubishi Aircraft, the Japanese SpaceJet aircraft producer, announced that it is shutting down the overseas operations.
According to the Times newspaper report, the UK Treasury has drawn up proposals that would require companies to pay between 20% to 30% of furloughed employees' salaries.
On Saturday, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on state television that Iran would reopen businesses, Museums, religious and historical sites on May 24.
Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, said on Saturday that Beijing has betrayed the citizens of Hong Kong.
On Saturday, Thomas Gottstein, the CEO of Swiss Bank Credit Suisse, said that the company would surely be able to get by with fewer staffs in the medium term.
Several European countries, Austria, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, expressed on Saturday their disagreement with French-German €500B coronavirus recovery plan.
The UK opposition called on Saturday the country's Prime Minister to fire adviser Dominic Cummings after he had driven 400 km while having coronavirus symptoms.
On Friday, Hertz Global Holdings filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Kazakh and Turkish Ministers, Beibut Atamkulov and Adil Karaismailoglu, had a phone conversation on Saturday during which they discussed the possibility to renew flights between the two countries in June.
On Friday, Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, condemned China's ruling Communist Party plan to impose a new national security law for Hong Kong.
The Chinese government has signalled that it would impose new national security laws for Hong Kong, as pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong urged mass protests over the weekend against the law.
Freight-forwarder Kuehne+Nagel is likely to cut more than 20K jobs, mostly in the US, as the coronavirus-caused crisis hits shipping.
Amazon.com's India unit is set hire 50K temporary workers to meet an increase in online shopping in the country during the lockdown.
Tax revenues of the government and the 16 federal states of Germany decreased 25.3% year-on-year in April to around €39B amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Ryanair's Austrian airline Lauda is set to shut down the main Vienna base on May 29, affecting 300 jobs in Austria.
According to the Britain Office for National Statistics report, published on Friday, The UK government borrowing rose to £62bn in April.
The Canadian retail sales tumbled 10%, hitting the record-low level, in March as the majority of non-essential businesses were shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic spread, according to Statistics Canada.
China's technology company NetEase has chosen June 11 for the secondary listing on the Stock Exchange in Hong Kong, with the web retailer JD.com's listing to be launched a week after that.