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Canada orders TikTok offices closed on ‘national security’ grounds

Access to app, including to create and post content, still allowed for users in country

ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown over US sale amid legal challenges

While TikTok represents a small portion of ByteDance's revenues and daily active users, the company is inclined to opt for a shutdown in the US instead of a sale to an American buyer in a worst-case scenario. 

US Senate passes TikTok ownership law, Biden now to sign

The US Senate on Tuesday approved a law aimed at forcing a change of ownership of popular video-sharing social media app TikTok.

No justice when US follows ‘bandit’s logic’ in voting to punish TikTok, says China

China has branded the United States vote on a bill that forces TikTok to sever ties with Chinese parent company ByteDance as “following the logic of a bandit”, and that Beijing is ready to “take all necessary measures” to protect the interests of its companies overseas.

TikTok’s CEO rallies support against US legislation that aims to effectively ban the app

TikTok is fighting back after the US House of Representatives passed legislation that forces China-based ByteDance to divest its stake in the app, saying a potential ban will take away billions of dollars from content creators and small businesses as well as putting more than 300,000 American jobs at risk.

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National shuttlers demand RM2 million salaries: can BAM keep up financially?

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