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, March 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — For millions of Australians living with dry, itchy, and sensitive skin, the search for something that truly works is deeply personal. For many families, it is a challenge they navigate every single day. Jolicare, Malaysia’s leading herbal repair cream brand, is here for them. Not to offer temporary relief, but to deliver lasting repair. Today, Jolicare officially launches in Australia, marking the brand’s first expansion beyond Southeast Asia. Jolicare Cream and Jolicare Lotion are now available at jolicare.au, bringing herbal solutions trusted by over 100,000 customers to Australian families for the very first time. “We didn’t come to Australia to be just another option on the shelf. We came because we know what this product does for people, and Australians deserve access to it,” said Caleb Wong, CEO of Jolicare. Why Australia, Why Now Two years ago, before Jolicare had any presence in Australia, someone there found us. Just one person, looking for something that worked. It did not stay that way. Since then, orders from Australia have only grown, even without a physical presence in the market. As the brand expanded across Malaysia and Singapore, enquiries from Australian families kept coming, many of them parents searching for a herbal alternative they could trust on their children’s skin. “Our first customer from Australia came about two years ago. And the customers from Australia have only increased since, even without a physical presence there. So I think it’s about time.” Caleb said with a grin. “For a brand built on herbal, lasting repair for the whole family, Australia was not just an opportunity. It was a responsibility,” he added. From One Cream to a National Record Founded in 2021, Jolicare started with a simple belief: that people with dry, itchy, and sensitive skin deserve more than temporary relief. The early years were not glamorous. The team was small, the challenges were real, and there were moments where the brand’s survival was genuinely in question. But the product worked. And customers talked. In 2025, Jolicare was recognised by the Malaysia Book of Records for the “Most Skin Repair Creams Sold in a Year”, a first in its category. Today, the brand has sold over 100,000 creams, earned more than 20,000 five-star reviews, and is stocked in over 1,000 retail stores nationwide, including Guardian and Watsons. “Jolicare was built with and for the people who needed it most. Every review they wrote, every friend they told, every pharmacy they walked into asking for us by name. That is what brought us here,” said Caleb. Made with Purpose, for the Whole Family At the heart of every Jolicare product is a straightforward belief: what goes on your skin, and your family’s, should never be a compromise. Jolicare Cream and Jolicare Lotion are formulated with 10+ Premium Herbs, and contain zero parabens and zero fragrances. Both are GMP-certified and independently lab-tested and verified by SGS and MyCO2. Gentle enough for young children, and designed from the ground up for lasting repair, not temporary relief. “Every ingredient in Jolicare is there for a reason. And everything that is not in it, the parabens, the fragrances, was left out for a reason too. We are not here to be the loudest brand. We are here to be the one that actually works,” said Caleb. Jolicare Cream — the brand’s flagship skin repair cream, formulated to deliver lasting repairs for dry, itchy, and sensitive skin. Trusted by families across Malaysia and Singapore, for everyone who needs it. Jolicare Lotion Jolicare – The Herbal Cream for Lasting Repair About Jolicare Jolicare is Malaysia’s

With thousands more US marines on their way to the Gulf, both sides firing intense barrages and Iran denying any negotiations are taking place, the war’s tempo remained high a day after Mr Trump delayed his self-imposed deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran’s chokehold on that crucial waterway has snarled international shipping, sent fuel prices skyrocketing, and threatened the world economy. Pakistan has offered to host diplomatic talks, according to officials from there and two other countries involved. But Iran remained defiant on Tuesday, with the spokesman of its top military command saying that the armed forces would fight ‘until complete victory’. Any talks between the US and Iran – which appeared at the most tentative on Tuesday – would face monumental challenges. Many of Washington’s shifting list of objectives – particularly over Iran’s ballistic missile and nuclear programmes – remain difficult to achieve. Meanwhile, it is not clear who in Iran’s government would have the authority to negotiate – or be willing to, particularly as Israel has vowed to continue taking out leaders after killing several. Iran also remains highly suspicious of the United States, which twice under the Trump administration has attacked during high-level diplomatic talks, including with the February 28 strikes that started the current war. While Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf called the idea of negotiations with the US ‘fakenews’, foreign minister Abbas Araghchi’s office acknowledged he has been talking about the war this week with his counterparts in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Turkmenistan. Rubble covers the furniture of a destroyed living room in a residential building hit in an earlier US-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran (Vahid Salemi/AP) The US had agreed ‘in principle’ to join talks in Pakistan, according to three Pakistani officials, one Egyptian official and a Gulf diplomat, while mediators were still working to convince Iran. The Pakistani officials said the ‘quiet diplomacy’ had grown more complicated since news of Pakistan’s attempts leaked. And in fact, Major General Ali Abdollahi Aliabadi, spokesman of Iran’s top military command, issued a defiant statement. Iranian state television quoted Maj Gen Aliabadi as saying: ‘Iran’s powerful armed forces are proud, victorious and steadfast in defending Iran’s integrity, and this path will continue until complete victory.’ The general did not say what ‘complete victory’ would look like, but it appeared likely Iran’s military was trying to warn against offering concessions in any possible negotiations. The Egyptian official said efforts are centred on ‘trust-building’ between the US and Iran, with the aim of bringing about a pause in the fighting. Israeli security and rescue forces respond at the site of an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv (Ohad Zwigenberg/AP) Israel is not involved. The official, who is involved in the efforts, said the priority is to prevent attacks on both Iran’s and Gulf Arab countries’ energy infrastructure and that they were working on a ‘mechanism’ for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Talk of negotiations briefly drove down oil prices and boosted stocks. But that respite was short-lived, with the price of Brent crude, the international standard, nudging back over 100 dollars a barrel on Tuesday, up nearly 40% since the war started. Mr Trump’s announcement came as a contingent of thousands of marines is on the way to the region, raising speculation that the US may try to seize Kharg Island, which is vital to the country’s oil network. The US bombed the island in the Persian Gulf more than a week ago, hitting its defences but saying it had left oil infrastructure intact. Iran has threatened

Samsung’s GOS saga is officially closed, but the headlines leave us with a few stubborn takeaways about how tech giants balance performance, transparency, and consumer trust in an era of smoothed optimization. Personally, I think the four-year arc of the Game Optimizing Service controversy offers a broader lesson about the implicit social contract between device makers and users: you can tune systems for safety and longevity, but you should not obscure what you’re doing or gate it behind a black box. A fresh start with a costly reminder What began as a practical feature—throttling processing to keep Galaxy S22s from overheating—spiraled into a consumer rights crisis. The core idea was simple: protect hardware, protect user experience, protect brand reputation. Yet the backlash arose from opacity. If a feature quietly censors hardware, consumers rightly demand to know where, when, and why. The Seoul High Court’s ruling—ordering Samsung to compensate Galaxy S22 users—signals the judiciary’s stance that transparency matters, even in the name of performance guardrails. From my perspective, the court acknowledges that consumer consent requires clarity, not just utility. Why this matters beyond one model – The health of the device ecosystem hinges on trust. If users feel they’re being nudged or deceived, even for ostensibly beneficial purposes, trust frays. This is not a single-phone story; it’s a litmus test for how future software governance on devices should work. – Performance optimization is inevitable in a crowded app landscape. But the more critical question becomes: who controls the knobs, and what oversight exists? If GOS-like features become invisible defaults, people miss the chance to opt in or out, calibrate preferences, or understand the trade-offs between speed, battery life, and heat. – Legal and regulatory expectations are tightening around digital transparency. The initial ruling flagged misleading advertising, and the subsequent enforcement shows that courts can—and will—translate consumer confusion into compensation. That matters for every hardware maker that leans on ‘smart optimization’ as a narrative crutch. What makes this controversy fascinating is not just the tech detail but the cultural moment it reveals. In an age where devices are designed to optimize themselves for you, the question shifts from ‘Can we do it?’ to ‘Should we do it without explaining it?’ In my view, the most telling moment is not the cooling tax on performance but the insistence on disclosure. If users don’t know what’s happening under the hood, they cannot make informed judgments about trade-offs that affect daily life—gaming latency, battery longevity, device heat, and even resale value. Three layers of commentary on the ruling – Technical layer: GOS throttling affected CPU and GPU across thousands of apps, aiming to prevent overheating. What I find notable is that the throttling didn’t trigger during certain benchmark tests. That discrepancy points to a mismatch between the company’s performance narratives and real-world behavior. It also raises questions about how to design testing regimes that reflect everyday usage rather than synthetic peaks. – Consumer rights layer: The plaintiffs framed this as deception in advertising. If you cannot turn off the feature or cannot easily understand its presence, you’re effectively signing up for a hidden optimization. That’s not merely a quirk of marketing; it’s a fundamental issue about informed consent in consumer technology. – Corporate governance layer: Samsung faced a long legal process, including multiple mediation attempts before a final administrative remedy. The takeaway here is that resolving these disputes may require formal mediations and, eventually, a binding decision. The cost—financial and reputational—signals to industry players that ‘quiet optimization’ carries a real potential for backlash and regulation. Deeper implications for the industry What this episode suggests is

After 13 U.S. troops were killed during the opening weeks of the Iran war, Joe Kent had seen enough. It was time, he said, to stand on principle and resign his position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, knowing it was likely that some of President Donald Trump’s other advisers would turn on him. Kent, a retired Special Operations soldier whose military career included 11 combat deployments, had decided days earlier that if hostilities with Iran erupted into a ‘full war like we’re doing now,’ then there was no way he could stay. Doing so, he reasoned, would have contradicted a promise that he made to himself years earlier while serving during the Iraq War, a costly, devastating conflict that he came to view as having been built on lies and foisted on the American people by the administration of President George W. Bush. ‘I said, ‘If I ever have a seat at the table, I’m not going to put up with this. I’ll do whatever I can to prevent it,” Kent said in an hour-long interview with The Washington Post. Kent’s stunning resignation last week has thrust him to the center of a bitter debate about whether and how the Trump administration should prosecute its war with Iran, a powerful longtime U.S. adversary responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans. Now, he said, he is making his case to fellow conservatives through a series of interviews with podcasters popular among Trump’s political base, including Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Saagar Enjeti and Shawn Ryan. It’s a concerted effort, Kent said, to rally members of the president’s Make America Great Again movement and ensure he hears dissenting voices on an issue that has divided Republicans. While some Trump supporters are inclined to use military might to influence global affairs, others — like Kent — say they chose to support him in part because he voiced scorn for America’s earlier wars. Administration officials have gone on the attack against Kent. Davis Ingle, a White House spokesman, said in a statement that Kent’s ‘self-aggrandizing’ resignation letter and recent interviews have been ‘riddled with lies,’ the ‘most egregious’ of which was him claiming that ‘the largest state sponsor of terrorism somehow did not pose a threat to the United States and that Israel forced the President into launching Operation Epic Fury.’ The president, Ingle said, took ‘decisive action based on strong evidence’ that Iran ‘posed an imminent threat and was preparing to strike Americans first.’ Trump, he said, ‘does not make these incredibly important national security decisions based on fluid opinion polls or podcast hosts, but on the best interest of the American people.’ A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration, said recent polls, including one by The Post, have shown Trump’s decision to launch the war against Iran has support from a majority of Americans, with Republicans strongly supporting it. The official acknowledged that ‘some online commentators with large followings’ disagree with Trump, and said the media has highlighted that ‘to try and sow division’ while the president’s political base ‘is not wavering one bit.’ Kent’s high-profile exit and messaging campaign comes as Trump sends mixed signals about his next moves in Iran — having left the door open to ordering the deployment of U.S. combat troops onto Iranian soil, a move that could drastically increase the number of American military fatalities. U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss military planning, have said the Pentagon is developing options for the White House that include thousands of Army paratroopers

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The Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem), through the deputy minister of Mines, Juan Samanez Bilbao, inaugurated the ‘International Conference on the Mining Environment in Latin America 2026’, an event that seeks to strengthen the management of mining environmental liabilities in our country with the participation of public and private institutions and international entities.
‘Today we are brought together by a common purpose: to strengthen our technical, institutional, and human capacities to consolidate one of the greatest sustainable development challenges in our country: the proper management of mining environmental liabilities and the efficient execution of mine closure processes,’ said the deputy minister.
He added that the international conference represents a strategic opportunity to increase inter-institutional knowledge and experience, incorporate best practices and innovative technologies, strengthen governance and international coordination, and promote higher standards of environmental compliance.
The event was organized by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the Korea Mine Rehabilitation and Mineral Resources Corporation (KOMIR) and MINEM, and brought together experts and delegations from the Republic of Korea, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru.
The MINEM, together with the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI) and KOICA, has signed Records of Discussions and agreements to strengthen the mining sector, highlighting projects for the remediation of environmental mining liabilities with technology transfers and technical assistance, being one of the key agreements to improve mine closure processes.
The vice minister expressed his appreciation to KOICA for its commitment to sustainable development, its ongoing support, and the effort it makes in our country. ‘This ongoing joint effort produces concrete results, helping to strengthen trust among the State, industry, and society,’ he added.
For his part, the ambassador of South Korea to Peru, Choi Jong-wook, said that ‘this conference is a favorable occasion for Korea, Peru, and other friendly countries of Latin America to discuss the common challenges of sustainable mining and environmental management of mines, sharing their policies, technologies, and diverse experiences’.
Attending this event were Kim Young-woo, director of KOICA in Peru; Kwon Soon-jin, director of the Mineral Resources Division of KOMIR, line directors of MINEM, and professionals from the public and private sectors of the mining industry.

Democratic Rep. John Garamendi on Tuesday said the Iranian regime is ‘still in place’ amid repeated strikes from the Trump administration signaling little change for the conditions in the Middle East.
‘Well, it’s certainly been successful in taking out the leadership. However, we should by now realize that there is depth in the leadership. There’s somebody to take the place of the individual that has been killed. So, they take the top out, the next guy moves up,’ Garamendi said during a Tuesday appearance on CNN’s ‘News Central.’
‘The bottom line of this is that the regime is still in place. The tools that — and mechanisms that the regime has used for the last 40-some years is still in place. What has changed? Well, the leader has changed, but the underlying situation is not at all changed,’ he added.
Former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed on Feb. 28 and his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, has been named as his successor.
On Tuesday, Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was also pronounced dead after a series of strikes.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday said the regime is ‘intact, but degraded’ amid the U.S.-Israel war against Tehran.
She said its leaders are attempting to ‘recover from the severe damage to its nuclear infrastructure, sustained during the 12-day war and continued to refuse to comply with its nuclear obligations,’ during a Wednesday hearing on Capitol Hill.
Last week, President Trump told reporters there was practically ‘nothing left’ to bomb in Iran and said the offensive attack dubbed Operation Epic Fury was ahead of schedule.
The Iranian regime has refused to back down and said it does not trust future negotiations with the Trump administration leading to uncertainty about the war’s timeline.
‘I don’t see any room for diplomacy anymore. Because Donald Trump had been deceiving others and not keeping with his promises, and we experienced this in two times of negotiations — that while we were engaged in negotiation, they struck us,’ Kamal Kharazi, a foreign policy adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader, told CNN last week.
Iran’s other leaders have said U.S.-Israeli joint strikes are unjust and accused them both of violating international law in regard to their targets.
A strike on a school for girls in Minab left more than 100 children dead, while attacks on desalination plants in Iran threaten civilians access to clean water.
In the midst of the conflict, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pledged ‘no quarter, no mercy for our enemies,’ which has been received with controversy by legal experts and past U.S. officials.
‘When the U.S. Secretary of War declares ‘no quarter,’ he doesn’t project strength. He conveys moral bankruptcy and ignorance about law of armed conflict. We advise him to review the Hague Convention and Rome Statute of the ICC, unless he aspires to join Netanyahu as war criminal,’ Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi wrote in a post on the social platform X in response to Hegseth’s claims.
The Defense secretary has been in hot water before over a double pass strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea after reports alleged he told servicemembers to make sure everyone on board was killed.
Despite concerns, the Trump administration has maintained that they are acting within the president’s legal authority and scope.
Filip Timotija contributed to this article.

Like many other military actions ordered by U.S. presidents since the end of the Second World War in 1945, Trump initiated this foreign intervention without a congressional declaration of war. It has been executed under presumed executive authority and without another country having actually attacked the territory of the United States.
For eight decades, presidents have claimed that matters of “national security” or the “global interests” of the United States call for and even require the chief executive to take military action almost everywhere and in various forms around the world. However, one of the differences between Trump’s public statements and rationales for his war against Iran from those of other presidents in defending their own foreign interventions is that these previous ones were usually couched in soothing or altruistic rhetoric that made it seem that the necessity and the justification were more than the wishes of one man living in the White House.
Trump’s language is far more “first person singular”: I have the authority; I have the power; I want; I demand; I will decide; I will punish; I will reward; I will order; I said this yesterday, and I say this today, and I may say something different tomorrow, but none of it is contradictory, inconsistent, or hypocritical because I know more than anyone, so any day-by-day changes in my words or deeds are all the right actions in the latest circumstances based on my superior insight. And anyone who disagrees with me shows his anti-Americanism, his disloyalty, his hatred for all things Trump, a loser enemy of making America great again. Me, Me, Me.
Part of the debate and argument over the current conflict in the Middle East, therefore, not surprisingly, has been reduced to the personal: do you or do you not like or trust or support Donald Trump? But his actions in intervening in Venezuela or, now, Iran, are really no different in terms of presidential authority presumed and applied by his predecessors in the White House.
The more general questions that should be asked are: Does the president of the United States have the authority to intervene, when he deems it necessary, into the affairs of other nations and in other parts of the world even when the United States has not been directly attacked and without a congressional declaration of war? Anyone who follows various social-media outlets knows that this has divided many classical liberals, libertarians, Objectivists, and conservatives. And their rhetoric towards each other has often been heated and, dare I say, sometimes “impolite.”

California Public Employees Retirement System cut its stake in AutoZone, Inc. (NYSE:AZO ) by 17.2% in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 51,921 shares of the company’s stock after selling 10,802 shares during the quarter. California Public Employees Retirement System owned about 0.31% of AutoZone worth $222,754,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in AZO. Raleigh Capital Management Inc. bought a new position in AutoZone in the 3rd quarter worth about $26,000. Global Trust Asset Management LLC increased its position in shares of AutoZone by 600.0% during the third quarter. Global Trust Asset Management LLC now owns 7 shares of the company’s stock valued at $30,000 after buying an additional 6 shares during the period. Loomis Sayles & Co. L P bought a new stake in shares of AutoZone during the second quarter valued at about $33,000. Salomon & Ludwin LLC purchased a new stake in shares of AutoZone in the third quarter worth about $34,000. Finally, AlphaCore Capital LLC lifted its holdings in shares of AutoZone by 42.9% in the second quarter. AlphaCore Capital LLC now owns 10 shares of the company’s stock worth $37,000 after buying an additional 3 shares in the last quarter. 92.74% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors. In other news, VP Richard Craig Smith sold 5,910 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Friday, January 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $3,700.00, for a total value of $21,867,000.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the vice president directly owned 2,627 shares in the company, valued at approximately $9,719,900. This represents a 69.23% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. Also, Director Earl G. Graves, Jr. sold 250 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Friday, January 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $3,295.00, for a total value of $823,750.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 4,887 shares in the company, valued at $16,102,665. This trade represents a 4.87% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold 9,447 shares of company stock valued at $34,179,923 over the last quarter. Insiders own 2.60% of the company’s stock. AutoZone (NYSE:AZO ) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, March 3rd. The company reported $27.63 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $27.59 by $0.04. AutoZone had a net margin of 12.47% and a negative return on equity of 72.31%. The firm had revenue of $4.27 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $4.31 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $28.29 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 8.2% compared to the same quarter last year. As a group, research analysts anticipate that AutoZone, Inc. will post 152.94 earnings per share for the current year. AZO has been the subject of several recent analyst reports. Citigroup boosted their price objective on shares of AutoZone from $4,200.00 to $4,300.00 and gave the company a ‘buy’ rating in a research note on Wednesday, March 4th. Barclays raised their price target on shares of AutoZone from $3,800.00 to $3,900.00 and gave the company an ‘overweight’ rating in a report on Wednesday, March 4th. Oppenheimer restated an ‘outperform’ rating and set