The founder of Bytedance, which owns social media giant TikTok, said Monday his teams were working around-the-clock "for the best outcome," as talks on the sale of its US operation to Microsoft continue, Chinese media reported.

Microsoft announced that it would continue talks to acquire the US operations of popular video-sharing app TikTok, after meeting with President Donald Trump who seemingly backed off his earlier threats to ban the Chinese-owned platform.

The perennial problem of defections by elected representatives resulting in the collapse of both state and federal governments will remain in Malaysian politics so long as our law permits it.