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They didn’t have much, but they could create. Money was tight for the family, so they built their own board games growing up in Saskatchewan, Canada. One year, Matthew Fehr’s father created his own little golf board game out of huge bristle boards with holes drawn in and different clubs tapered off. They rolled dice to see where the ball went, with sand traps and water hazards and trees along the way.It lit a spark in Matthew. Sure, he liked golf as a game, but there was more pulling him in — he could create new worlds this way. Soon…

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CHINA’S ECONOMIC POLICIES Chinese Finance Minister Lan Fo’an noted that the central government has left ample room for policy tools to be implemented in the coming year.  He hinted that further stimulus measures could be on the cards, after the government set the 2025 fiscal deficit target at 4 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). “On the one hand, more effort is needed in carrying out the existing policies. We need to implement well the policy package put forward in the fourth quarter last year and make sure of the sustained effect of this policy in 2025,” said Lan.  “On…

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At least 70 people were killed and dozens wounded in overnight clashes between the new authorities in Syria and gunmen loyal to the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor said, in the bloodiest skirmishes since the collapse of the Assad government.The fighting unfolded in Latakia and Tartous provinces, longtime strongholds for Mr. al-Assad along Syria’s Mediterranean coast. It came hours after the killing of 16 security personnel by Assad loyalists in the Latakia countryside on Thursday afternoon, the deadliest attack yet on Syria’s new security forces.Thousands of protesters flooded streets in the cities of Latakia and Tartous to demand…

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President Trump said on Thursday that the next phase of his plan to cut the federal work force would be conducted with a “scalpel” rather than a “hatchet” in what appeared to be a step aimed at restraining Elon Musk.In a meeting earlier in the day, Mr. Trump directed his cabinet secretaries to work with his jobs-cutting guru, Mr. Musk, while also assuring his agency leaders that they have a say in the firings and should keep “good people.”The move — to both publicly support Mr. Musk and also reel in some of his indiscriminate approach — reflects a growing…

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Two months after the Education Department officially opened its doors in 1980, Republicans approved a policy platform calling on Congress to shut it down.Now, more than four decades later, President Trump may come closer than any other Republican president to making that dream a reality.Though doing away with the agency would require an act of Congress, Mr. Trump has devoted himself to the goal, and is said to be preparing an executive order with the aim of dismantling it.Mr. Trump’s fixation has reinvigorated the debate over the role of the federal government in education, creating a powerful point of unity…

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Fremantle detectives are on the hunt for an “unpredictable” 47-year-old man who they believe may be able to help with a current investigation.Police are appealing to the public for information on John Nettle who is described as being 179cm tall, of medium build, with a shaved head.His whereabouts is unknown, but is known to frequent suburbs surrounding Beaconsfield, Hamilton Hill, South Lake and Willagee.Members of the public are warned not to approach Mr Nettle but call police immediately on 131 444.Police ask anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or report the information online…

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JAKARTA: Indonesia approved local certificates for more than a dozen Apple products on Friday (Mar 7), the industry ministry said, moving the tech giant a step closer to having a ban lifted on iPhone sales in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Apple struck a deal with Indonesia last month to invest in the country of 280 million after months of deadlock over the tech titan’s failure to meet regulations requiring phones to be built with at least 40 per cent of components made locally. “We have issued local content requirement certificates for 20 Apple products,” Industry Ministry spokesperson Febri Hendri Antoni Arief…

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Foreign Minister Wang says China has been helping US fight its fentanyl crisis, which Trump blamed for imposing tariffs.China’s top diplomat has declared that Beijing will “firmly counter” United States pressure after President Donald Trump heaped tariffs on Chinese goods. Foreign Minister Wang Yi also accused Washington of “meeting good with evil” for provoking a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of a key political meeting in the Chinese capital on Friday, Wang warned that the “law of the jungle” could take hold in the world if nations were to…

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