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[SINGAPORE] Lyon Investments – controlled by the Widjaja family, one of Indonesia’s wealthiest clans – has crossed the 90 per cent acceptance threshold in its offer for Singapore-listed Sinarmas Land.This triggers the right of compulsory acquisition of all the shares of shareholders who have not accepted the offer, paving the way for the delisting of the mainboard-listed property developer from the Singapore Exchange.In a regulatory filing on Monday (May 26), Lyon Investments announced it had secured valid acceptances for 1.14 billion shares, or 26.85 per cent, of Sinarmas Land’s total share base.The offeror and its concert parties owned about 2.99…

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Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. WhatsApp finally gets a real iPad app, and yes, it took them over 15 years. Gone are the hacky workarounds: you can now grab the official WhatsApp app straight from the App Store and use it natively on your iPad’s big screen, reports The Verge. This isn’t just a blown-up iPhone version, either. The app supports video and audio calls with up to 32 people,…

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SAN FRANCISCO :Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill requiring Apple and Alphabet’s Google to verify the age of users of their app stores, putting the second-most-populous U.S. state at the center of a debate over whether and how to regulate smartphone use by children and teenagers.The law, effective on January 1, requires parental consent to download apps or make in-app purchases for users aged below 18. Utah was the first U.S. state to pass a similar law earlier this year, and U.S. lawmakers have also introduced a federal bill.Another Texas bill, passed in the state’s…

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National Public Radio filed suit Tuesday against US President Donald Trump, seeking to block his order to end federal funding for it and the PBS television network. Since returning to power in January, Trump has heightened his long-running feud with mainstream US media, which he accuses of being biased against him. As part of an administration-wide media crackdown, officials have moved to outright dismantle government-funded news outlets, while the White House has revoked independent management of who covers its events. Trump earlier this month signed an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which oversees NPR and PBS, to…

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The daughter of Gisele Pelicot has suggested chemical castration could be “one part of the solution” when there is “nothing else you can do” for sex offenders – like her father.Caroline Darian’s father Dominique Pelicot admitted repeatedly drugging and raping his wife Gisele between 2011 and 2020, and inviting dozens of other men to their home in southern France to do the same. Gisele decided to waive her right to anonymity to hold the trial of her husband and 50 other men in public, saying: “It is not for us to be ashamed, but for those men.”Politics latest: Farage says…

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BRUSSELS — A large majority of European Union countries on Tuesday called on Hungary to revise a new law that allows bans on public events by LGBTQ+ communities, as pressure mounts on the country’s populist government over democratic backsliding.In a declaration, at least 20 out of the EU’s 27 nations, including France, Germany and Spain, expressed concern that the law passed in April allows for fines on people organizing or taking part in Pride events, and the use of facial recognition software to identify them.“We are highly alarmed by these developments, which run contrary to the fundamental values of human…

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FAIR Plan Fix: What are lawmakers doing to fix California’s insurance and why is it taking so long? – CBS News Watch CBS News FAIR plan problems are nothing new, but suddenly, everyone is paying attention to California’s insurance crisis. Are we any closer to a fix? CBS News California investigates the flood of insurance-related bills in the aftermath of the L.A. fires and why it’s taken so long for lawmakers to take action. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On

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OnePlus 13s is set to launch in India on June 5 and the company unveiled OnePlus AI, it’s new artificial intelligence (AI) suite for its devices on Tuesday. The Chinese smartphone maker also revealed the functionalities of the new Plus Key, which is confirmed to debut on the upcoming OnePlus 13s. The hardware button can be used for several utility features, as well as to activate a couple of AI tools. Among them is the new AI Plus Mind feature, which lets users quickly save, catalogue, and resurface on-device content.OnePlus 13s to Be First Handset to Support ‘AI Plus Mind’…

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