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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian retail group Macrovalue, which firmly stamped its mark as a major player in the regional supermarket business with the acquisition of Cold Storage and Giant stores in Singapore this week, is in expansion mode. Businessman Andrew Lim Tatt Keong, the owner and driving force behind the privately owned Macrovalue, said the S$125 million (US$93 million) deal with Singapore-listed DFI Retail Group, makes his company Malaysia’s third largest supermarket operator, after AEON and Lotus (formerly Tesco). It is also in line with his group’s strategy to achieve economies of scale in a fiercely competitive environment. “The grand plan…

Trump says he will be willing to extend TikTok sale deadline in exchange for trade concessions.United States President Donald Trump says he would be willing to reduce tariff rates on China to secure a deal with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the social media app used by 170 million Americans. “With respect to TikTok, and China is going to have to play a role in that, possibly in the form of an approval, maybe, and I think they’ll do that. Maybe I’ll give them a little reduction in tariffs or something to get it done,” Trump told reporters…

Texas has passed a bill that would create an efficiency office much like the federal government’s Department of Government Efficiency started by President Donald Trump.Texas SB14 establishes the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office and, if passed into law, will attempt to streamline state regulations, reduce unnecessary rules and promises to make massive reductions to the size of the state’s government.”I prioritized SB 14 because President Trump’s creation of the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ inspired me to find ways Texas can save taxpayers and businesses money by cutting burdensome regulations. The Texas Miracle will continue long into the 21st century because our…

Shoppers line up to shop at a Laopu Gold outlet in Deji Plaza in Nanjing, China, on Feb. 21, 2025.Fang Dongxu | Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese companies’ latest earnings reports point to an improvement in consumer spending, though it’s not necessarily back to pre-pandemic levels.E-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com both said in the last several weeks that their China retail business saw faster year-on-year revenue growth in the last three months of 2024 than in 2023.”We think consumption growth is in a period of healthy recovery, but not [yet reaching] the high previously,” Charlie…

One American veterans nonprofit is giving back to Ukrainian soldiers severely wounded in combat or in Russian war camps.The American Warrior Partnership (AWP), a 501c3 based in Georgia, seeks to address mental wellness challenges for veterans “long before a crisis occurs,” according to its website.President Jim Lorraine, himself an Air Force veteran, shared with Fox News Digital AWP’s partnership in aiding Ukrainian soldiers.TRUMP PAUSES AID TO UKRAINE AFTER FIERY MEETING WITH ZELENSKYY”The American Warrior Partnership is a national veterans-serving nonprofit,” Lorraine said. “Our focus is on getting to know veterans all over the country, understanding what they need on one…

Perth Glory full back Josh Risdon says the sacrifices of the past steeled him for the rigours of the professional game as prepares to set a club record for most A-League appearances this weekend.

Thai police are searching for a Singaporean man after his girlfriend was found dead in a room in Bangkok, local media reported on Thursday (Mar 27). Two women informed police at Thong Lor station on Wednesday that they had lost contact with their friend Praopilat Paladon, 30. They had not heard from her since Monday, the Bangkok Post reported. Officers went to a building at Sukhumvit Soi 39 in Watthana district on Wednesday and found that the room was unlocked, with the air-conditioning switched on. They found her body in the bathroom. It was wrapped in a bedsheet and blanket, according to…

European leaders will convene in Paris on Thursday to shore up support for Ukraine, a “coalition of the willing” that wants to help the war-torn country fight back against Russia despite wavering American commitment, and safeguard an eventual peace.France and Britain have been spearheading those efforts, which led to a first meeting in Paris in February and a second one in London earlier this month, as well as gatherings of top military chiefs. Over 30 officials are expected to attend the meeting on Thursday, mainly European heads of state and government as well as top European Union representatives.Who is willing…

President Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul U.S. elections that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and mandate that all ballots be received by Election Day across the country.The order claims the U.S. has “not adequately enforced Federal election requirements,” citing as examples “prohibit[ing] States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit[ing] non-citizens from registering to vote.”The order says the U.S. has failed “to enforce basic and necessary election protections” and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes.…

It was a hoax. The information wasn’t classified. Somehow the journalist got “sucked into” the Signal chat, either deliberately or through some kind of technical glitch.In the days since the editor in chief of The Atlantic revealed he had been inadvertently included in a group chat of top U.S. officials planning a military strike on Houthi militants in Yemen, senior members of the Trump administration have offered a series of shifting, sometimes contradictory and often implausible explanations for how the episode occurred — and why, they say, it just wasn’t that big a deal.Taken together, the statements for the most…