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Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions from reporters at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on May 25, 2026. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on May 25 the government will compile a $19 billion supplementary budget to support households grappling with soaring everyday costs driven by the Iran war. (Photo by JIJI PRESS / AFP via Getty Images) / Japan OUTStr | Afp | Getty ImagesJapanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is compiling a supplementary budget to help households with the cost of living, but it’s also created skepticism about whether she can stick to her promises about debt…

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Thapanee Techajareonvikul, took the reins as CEO and President of Berli Jucker PCL in 2023, becoming the storied retail and packaging firm’s first female chief executive.For Thapanee Techajareonvikul, the conviction that women belong in top leadership roles was never unusual.Her late mother, Wanna Sirivadhanabhakdi, was instrumental in building TCC Group into a multi-billion-dollar empire spanning beverages, property, retail and manufacturing, with holdings including Chang beer and Singapore-listed Fraser & Neave.Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, her father, ensured his two sons and three daughters received equal opportunities within the family business. Today, each sibling oversees a different part of the empire.Thapanee, the couple’s fourth…

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What’s your hobby? An innocent question, but one that has plagued me. I’ve always been a curious person who was interested in learning new things and struggled to pick one or two areas to focus on. After years of frustration, I finally decided that my hobby would be “collecting new experiences” and devised a plan: Every year I would commit myself to a few new experiences that would challenge and change me.In 2025, I decided to climb Mount Everest. Well, almost.I signed up for an endurance event called the 29029 challenge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The idea was to scale a…

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A woman looks at real estate listings outside a Berkshire Hathaway Home Services office in Montclair, N.J.Adam Jeffery | CNBCBerkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire Taylor Morrison Home in an all-cash deal valued at about $8.5 billion, the companies said in a joint statement on Sunday, marking an expansion of the conglomerate’s housing business.Under the terms, Berkshire will acquire the homebuilder for $72.50 per common share in cash, valuing Taylor Morrison’s equity at around $6.8 billion. The offer represents a premium of about 24% to the company’s closing stock price of $58.50 on Friday.The deal underscores Berkshire’s long-standing interest in…

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Vladimir Vladimirov | E+ | Getty ImagesStudent loan borrowers who take certain steps will soon face fewer repayment and debt forgiveness pathways, due to President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. “Be very careful when it comes to taking out new student loans,” said Landon Warmund, a certified financial planner and certified student loan professional at Reliant Financial Services in Kansas City, Missouri. That’s because those who borrow federal student loans after July 1 will go from a “legacy borrower” to a “new borrower,” subject to a heap of different rules included in the legislation passed last year, said Kathleen…

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