UGI Corporation recently reported second‑quarter fiscal 2026 adjusted earnings that fell short of analyst expectations and agreed to sell its electric division for about US$470,000,000, while also pursuing a gas infrastructure partnership in northern Pennsylvania and expanding AmeriGas online propane sales through Amazon. At the same time, UGI confirmed it had already achieved all of its 2025 ESG ...
UGI Corporation recently reported second‑quarter fiscal 2026 adjusted earnings that fell short of analyst expectations and agreed to sell its electric division for about US$470,000,000, while also pursuing a gas infrastructure partnership in northern Pennsylvania and expanding AmeriGas online propane sales through Amazon. At the same time, UGI confirmed it had already achieved all of its 2025 ESG targets and maintained an AAA MSCI ESG rating, underscoring a push toward cleaner energy and...
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) is weighing a large equity offering that could raise tens of billions of dollars. The potential deal is aimed at funding a major buildout of the company’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. If completed, the transaction would represent a meaningful shift in Meta’s capital structure and approach to long term investment. Meta runs social and communication platform...
Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) is weighing a large equity offering that could raise tens of billions of dollars. The potential deal is aimed at funding a major buildout of the company’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. If completed, the transaction would represent a meaningful shift in Meta’s capital structure and approach to long term investment. Meta runs social and communication platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger, and has been investing heavily in AI to...
China wants slimmer electric vehicles after years of bigger batteries and rising demand for space and features helped make passenger cars significantly larger and heavier, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Sunday. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kilograms (3,757 pounds) in 2024, weighing about a third more than in 2012, the report said. Family EVs have a...
China wants slimmer electric vehicles after years of bigger batteries and rising demand for space and features helped make passenger cars significantly larger and heavier, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Sunday. The average passenger car in the country weighed 1,704 kilograms (3,757 pounds) in 2024, weighing about a third more than in 2012, the report said. Family EVs have also grown wider over the years, with many popular sport utility vehicles and multipurpose vehicles now approaching or exceeding 2 meters (6.5 feet) in width. The trend is drawing attention as larger vehicles put pressure on existing infrastructure. Some EVs are becoming too large for parking spaces designed under standards introduced a decade ago, according to CCTV. One vehicle measured by the broadcaster was nearly 2.3 meters wide, compared with the current standard parking-space width of 2.4 meters. Longer driving ranges have been one factor behind the growth. Some manufacturers market vehicles capable of traveling up to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) on a single charge, which can require battery packs weighing as much as 800 kilograms, according to experts cited in the report. Automakers have also added more comfort and lifestyle features to stand out in China’s crowded EV market. Some models are marketed as mobile living spaces where users can work, watch videos, drink coffee and rest, with some even featuring in-car toilets, the report said. Beijing has already begun responding. A mandatory national standard that took effect Jan. 1 bars new EV models that fail to meet energy-consumption requirements from being produced, sold or registered, in a bid to curb the growing size and weight of electric cars.
A recent series of child protection controversies, including a couple refusing a DNA test to register their home-born baby, has prompted calls for Hong Kong authorities to review guidelines for identifying neglect, and to expand the list of professionals required to report suspected abuse. Under the Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Ordinance – which took effect in January – people across 25 desi...
A recent series of child protection controversies, including a couple refusing a DNA test to register their home-born baby, has prompted calls for Hong Kong authorities to review guidelines for identifying neglect, and to expand the list of professionals required to report suspected abuse. Under the Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse Ordinance – which took effect in January – people across 25 designated professions, including those in the social welfare, education and medical sectors, are...
More and more of our furry friends are getting their own living spaces, complete with soft furnishings and decorations. We asked some of the owners why Lox is sprawled out on a green sofa, bathed in warm light from a standing lamp, framed art on the wall behind him. This may sound like a relatively ordinary description of someone in their living room – except that Lox is a cat, not a human, and th...
More and more of our furry friends are getting their own living spaces, complete with soft furnishings and decorations. We asked some of the owners why Lox is sprawled out on a green sofa, bathed in warm light from a standing lamp, framed art on the wall behind him. This may sound like a relatively ordinary description of someone in their living room – except that Lox is a cat, not a human, and the “living room” he shares with another cat, Lottie, is a converted cupboard in a New York apartment. Continue reading...
The Swiss director has staged court cases against Pussy Riot, mining companies in Congo and Gisèle Pelicot’s abusers. But after his invitation to Palantir founder Peter Thiel caused a row in Vienna, is Rau’s method eating itself? Milo Rau, once the enfant terrible of continental European theatre, is a little less buoyant these days. The Swiss theatre-maker has done something he says he explicitly ...
The Swiss director has staged court cases against Pussy Riot, mining companies in Congo and Gisèle Pelicot’s abusers. But after his invitation to Palantir founder Peter Thiel caused a row in Vienna, is Rau’s method eating itself? Milo Rau, once the enfant terrible of continental European theatre, is a little less buoyant these days. The Swiss theatre-maker has done something he says he explicitly hates: he has cancelled a guest. “Yes, we hit a wall,” he says. “But at least it made the wall visible.” In his capacity as the artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen theatre festival, Rau, at the end of last month, first invited, then disinvited, the American tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The Austrian weekly Falter called it a fiasco. Continue reading...
Tey Yong How remembers running along the shores of eastern Singapore as a child, the sea breeze mingling with the smell of sizzling seafood. Birthday dinners here meant three or four tables pushed together, with cousins chasing each other between the chairs as the adults pulled apart succulent chilli crab. “My childhood memories will linger there,” the 47-year-old said on a recent Wednesday evenin...
Tey Yong How remembers running along the shores of eastern Singapore as a child, the sea breeze mingling with the smell of sizzling seafood. Birthday dinners here meant three or four tables pushed together, with cousins chasing each other between the chairs as the adults pulled apart succulent chilli crab. “My childhood memories will linger there,” the 47-year-old said on a recent Wednesday evening of the seafood restaurants at East Coast Park. “Whatever may become of it in the...
One of China’s most prominent nuclear scientists has publicly clarified his role in the country’s rapidly expanding waste-to-energy sector, following years of speculation linking nuclear weapon technologies to municipal waste incineration. In a June 2 press release from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), veteran nuclear weapons physicist and CAE academician Du Xiangwan confirmed that he and...
One of China’s most prominent nuclear scientists has publicly clarified his role in the country’s rapidly expanding waste-to-energy sector, following years of speculation linking nuclear weapon technologies to municipal waste incineration. In a June 2 press release from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), veteran nuclear weapons physicist and CAE academician Du Xiangwan confirmed that he and his team had been engaged in research and consulting relating to the development of the pilot...