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Cheniere Energy, Inc. (“Cheniere”) (NYSE: LNG) today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, Senior Notes due 2036 (the “2036 Notes”) and Senior Notes due 2056 (the “2056 Notes” and, together with the 2036 Notes, the “Notes”).

Cheniere intends to use the proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, the repayment, refinancing or redemption of our and our subsidiaries’ existing indebtedness (including currently outstanding amounts under our subsidiary Cheniere Corpus Christi Holdings, LLC’s term loan facility), funding capital expenditures, working capital and other business opportunities. The Notes will rank pari passu in right of payment with existing senior notes at Cheniere, including the senior notes due 2028 and the senior notes due 2034.

The offer of the Notes has not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and the Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration under the Securities Act or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale of these securities would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

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Released March 5, 2026

As challenges persist in the global beverage alcohol market, the role of India as the planet’s most formidable growth engine has become even more vital – but what does it take to achieve success in this huge but enormously complex market?

Total beverage alcohol (TBA) volumes in India expanded at a CAGR of +3% between 2019 and 2024, capped by a +6% gain in 2024 and a projected +4% increase in 2025, according to IWSR data. Growth is expected to continue in the years ahead, with volumes predicted to rise at a CAGR of +3% between 2024 and 2034.

This growth spans all categories, with spirits, wine and beer all expected to record CAGR expansion of +3% to +4% over the next decade. Gains for RTDs are projected to be stronger still, with CAGR increases of +6% to 2034.

In volume terms beer is the largest category, but looking from a perspective of serves, whisky accounts for more than half of servings.

Domestic products dominate the spirits and beer categories, but imports are gaining ground. Imported spirits volumes grew at a CAGR of +16% between 2019 and 2024, with a projected +9% gain in 2025. IWSR projections show a +8% CAGR gain between 2024 and 2029, and a +6% CAGR to 2034. Beer imports are pursuing a similarly impressive trajectory.

“India leads TBA expansion in developing markets thanks to such factors as socialising, ongoing premiumisation, improvements in retailing and new product development, with 15-20 million new legal-drinking-age (LDA) consumers per year providing an expanding audience in what remains a dark market,” says Jason Holway, Senior Research Consultant at IWSR. “Spirits and RTDs saw continued growth in early 2025, with beer also posting steady volume gains. Wine’s performance is mixed: sparkling has grown a little, but still wine hasn’t yet broken out of its modest decline.”

What are the main challenges?

With a legal drinking age population fast approaching 1 billion potential consumers, there’s no doubting the scale of India’s potential, but this vast country is extremely nuanced, with state-level variations in taxation, regulation, distribution and retail. Alcohol is one of the most important generators of revenue for state authorities.

ERM, the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, has developed a strategic partnership with Ecolumix, the leading provider of US environmental, health and safety (EHS) data intelligence and benchmarking.

As a leader in EHS programs, regulatory compliance, and operational performance improvement, ERM helps organizations anticipate risk, strengthen core EHS programs, and sustain measurable performance improvements. Ecolumix’s expertise includes analyzing EHS data across millions of facilities and hundreds of KPIs to enable rapid identification of outliers and performance trends.

Businesses are facing rising regulatory expectations around environmental and safety performance, while publicly available EHS data and advancements in AI-enabled data analytics are driving increased stakeholder scrutiny and ushering in a new era of transparency. The ERM and Ecolumix partnership provides EHS leaders with a comprehensive view of their organization’s performance across the US, at enterprise and facility levels and against industry peers, enabling strategic resource allocation that reduces exposure and delivers measurable, data-backed ROI.

Through data-driven insights and EHS program expertise, ERM and Ecolumix are helping clients reduce risk, strengthen compliance, drive performance improvements and enhance their reputation in the market.

The partners are already working on client engagements including:

• Measuring facility-level EHS performance and risk across enterprises to identify issues that could trigger regulatory action or affect customer relationships.
• Applying Ecolumix performance data to target EHS audits more effectively, helping clients focus resources on the highest-risk locations and programs.
• Assessing supplier and vendor EHS risks that may impact operations, legal exposure, and brand reputation.

Ramesh Narasimhan, Global Managing Partner, Safe & Sustainable Operations at ERM said: “We are seeing increased client demand for EHS performance benchmarking, while the rise of public data transparency has raised the stakes, amplifying both risk and opportunity. ERM’s partnership with Ecolumix will help our clients to see how they compare against peers, understand performance variability across their own operations, and apply ERM’s expertise to turn those insights into targeted, sustainable EHS performance improvements.”

Doug Parker, CEO at Ecolumix said: “We’re excited to partner with ERM to help organizations unlock greater value from their EHS data and better understand how they stack up to their competitors. Ecolumix assesses data in context—across operations and against peers—to pinpoint where risk truly exists and where investment and corrective action will matter most. Paired with ERM’s deep technical and regulatory expertise, these insights translate into practical, defensible actions that help companies prioritize resources, reduce regulatory and reputational risk, and drive real improvement at the facility level—where EHS performance truly matters.”

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About ERM

Sustainability is our business.

As the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, deploying a unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. This approach helps clients accelerate the integration of sustainability at every level of their business.

With more than 50 years of experience, ERM’s diverse team of 8,000+ experts across 40 countries and territories helps clients create innovative solutions to their sustainability challenges—unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

Learn more here.

About Ecolumix

Ecolumix is an AI-driven data intelligence company built by industry experts that mines billions of verified data points to measure corporate environmental, health, and safety (EHS) performance across the United States.

Ecolumix’s insights enable companies to accurately assess facility-level environmental and compliance risks, evaluate supplier performance, identify emerging risk trends, and benchmark effectively against peers—turning complex regulatory data into clear, actionable intelligence.

Learn more here.

On March 9, join the world’s first Million Meatball Monday and make any six-inch Sub of the Day or Meal of the Day a footlong for free

MIAMI, March 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This year, the stars — and the meatballs — have aligned and Subway’s popular “Meatball Monday” deal just got a whole lot meatballier. On March 9, National Meatball Day, Subway is allowing in-the-know consumers to upgrade every six-inch Sub of the Day and Meal of the Day to a footlong for free* as it endeavors to sell 1 million meatballs in a single day. Here’s your once-in-a-lifetime chance to be part of the world’s first Million Meatball Monday!

Anyone who visits a Subway restaurant on March 9 and purchases a six-inch Meatball Sub as part of either Subway’s Sub of the Day or Meal of the Day can upgrade to a footlong for free*, all you need to do is ask. There’s no better way to celebrate National Meatball Day than digging into a footlong version of Subway’s iconic Meatball Sub for just $4.99**.

“With the calendar coincidence of National Meatball Day falling on Meatball Monday this year, Subway is rolling out the red sauce for meatball lovers with a one-day-only deal that’s bound to make history,” said Dave Skena, Chief Marketing Officer, North America. “But we need your help to make March 9 the world’s first Million Meatball Monday, and to sell more meatballs than every Scandinavian furniture company combined.” 

Subway’s rotating Meal of the Day lineup includes a six-inch sub for $6.99*** or a footlong for $9.99*** with a choice of two cookies or a bag of chips and a small fountain drink, while Sub of the Day offers a six-inch starting at just $4.99* — both bring fresh flavor and everyday value, all week long. No need to compromise on taste, convenience or value, with all subs freshly prepared with Subway ingredients at a great price.

To learn more about this limited time offer and other great deals from Subway including Sub of the Day and Meal of the Day, visit the Subway app or Subway.com.

*Free Upgrade to Footlong SOTD or Footlong MOTD: At participating U.S. restaurants. In-store orders only. Add-ons additional. Plus tax. Sub is not eligible to earn a Sub Club stamp. 1 per order. Cannot combine with other offers. Valid only on 3/9/26.
** $4.99 SOTD: At participating U.S. restaurants. Prices higher in AK & HI. Check your app for pricing and participating stores. Add-ons addt’l. Addt’l fees apply on delivery orders. Plus tax. Sub of the Day is not eligible to earn a Sub Club stamp. 1 per order. Cannot combine with other offers. Limited time.
*** $6.99 MOTD: At participating U.S. restaurants. Prices higher in CA, AK, and HI. Check your app for pricing and participating stores. Meal includes a 6″ Sub of the Day, chips or 2 regular cookies, and a 20oz fountain drink. Upgrade to a Footlong Sub of the Day for $3 more. Add-ons and bottled beverages addt’l. Plus tax. Fountain drinks not available on delivery. Addt’l fees apply on delivery orders. Sub is not eligible to earn a Sub Club stamp. Prices higher on third-party delivery. 1 per order. Cannot combine with other offers. Limited time.

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As the global sandwich leader, Subway serves freshly made sandwiches at a great value to millions of guests around the world in nearly 37,000 restaurants every day. Subway restaurants are owned and operated by a network of thousands of dedicated Subway franchisees who are passionate about consistently delivering a high-quality, convenient guest experience and contributing positively to their local communities.

Subway^® is a globally registered trademark of Subway IP LLC or one of its affiliates. © 2026 Subway.

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Healthcare systems worldwide are under unprecedented pressure. Rising patient volumes, increasing clinical complexity and workforce shortages are pushing frontline, high-acuity and high-demand imaging to its limits. Rembra was engineered from the ground up to meet these challenges, bringing together advanced detector technology, ultra-fast scan and reconstruction speeds and streamlined workflows in a system built for speed, consistency and long-term value. 

“Rembra is built for the realities that clinicians face every day,” said Dan Xu, Business Leader for Computed Tomography at Philips. “By combining our most advanced detector technology with AI-powered workflows and industry-leading speed, Rembra represents a significant step forward for high-acuity imaging, delivering speed, access and diagnostic confidence when it matters most.”

GENEVA (ILO News) – Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping the world of work, with the potential to boost productivity, support job creation and improve job quality, but its impacts are far from gender-neutral. A new research brief from the International Labour Organization (ILO) warns that GenAI is set to affect women’s jobs more than men’s, with female-dominated occupations almost twice as likely to be exposed to the technology.

The brief, Gen AI, occupational segregation and gender equality in the world of work, shows that women are disproportionately exposed to GenAI for three main reasons: they are overrepresented in jobs most susceptible to automation; they remain underrepresented in AI-related and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) occupations; and AI systems themselves often reflect and reproduce the gender biases embedded in societies.

Women concentrated in high-risk jobs

Across countries with available data, occupations dominated by women are almost twice as likely to be exposed to GenAI as male-dominated ones, the study finds. Around 29 per cent of female-dominated occupations are exposed to GenAI, compared to just 16 per cent of male-dominated occupations. The difference is even starker when looking at high automation risk: 16 per cent of female-dominated occupations fall into the highest exposure categories, compared to only 3 per cent of male-dominated ones.

These risks are closely linked to occupational segregation. Women are heavily concentrated in clerical, administrative and business support roles, such as secretaries, receptionists, payroll clerks and accounting assistants, where many tasks are routine and codifiable and therefore at higher risk of substitution by GenAI. By contrast, men are more represented in construction, manufacturing and manual trades, where tasks are less easily automated.

At the country level, women are more exposed to GenAI than men in 88 per cent of countries analysed. In several economies, more than 40 per cent of women’s employment is exposed to GenAI, including Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the Philippines, as well as small island developing States in the Caribbean and the Pacific. In high-income countries overall, 41 per cent of jobs are exposed to GenAI, compared with just 11 per cent in low-income countries, reflecting differences in occupational structures and digital readiness.

“Generative AI is not entering a neutral labour market,” said Anam Butt, co-author of the ILO research. “Discriminatory social norms, unequal care responsibilities and economic and labour market policies that do not fully address the needs of women and men continue to shape who enters which occupations and on what terms. As a result, women are concentrated in occupations that are more likely to be exposed to automation and remain underrepresented in AI-related jobs, facing higher risks but fewer opportunities from this technological shift.”

Locked out of AI opportunities

While GenAI is expected to drive job growth in technology-intensive sectors, women remain largely excluded from these opportunities. Globally, women accounted for only about 30 per cent of the AI workforce in 2022, only 4 percentage points higher than in 2016. They are also underrepresented in STEM jobs more broadly, particularly in high-demand fields such as engineering and software development.

This imbalance matters. When women are missing from AI-related jobs and decision-making roles, they are less likely to benefit from new employment opportunities and skills development. At the same time, enterprises lose out on talent, diversity and innovation.

Technology shaped by society

The brief underlines that GenAI, like technologies that came before it, is not neutral. Technologies are designed, trained and deployed within existing social and economic structures and can therefore reproduce biases and discrimination. The underrepresentation of women in the development and adoption of AI increases the risk of gender-biased technologies. AI systems trained on biased or incomplete data have been shown to disadvantage women in recruitment, pay decisions, credit scoring and access to services. Such risks are compounded for women facing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, including on the basis of race, ethnicity, disability or migration status. Without safeguards, GenAI can amplify these inequalities at scale.

Policy choices matter

The ILO stresses that the most widespread impact of GenAI is likely to be on job quality rather than job quantity. GenAI can change tasks, intensify workloads, increase monitoring or reduce autonomy. But if designed and implemented responsibly, it can also improve working conditions, enhance productivity and support work–life balance.

“The choices made today will determine whether GenAI becomes a force for greater equality or one that entrenches existing gaps,” the brief notes. Embedding gender equality in the design, deployment and governance of GenAI is essential, alongside tackling occupational segregation, expanding women’s access to skills and ensuring their representation in AI-related roles.

“The impact of generative AI on women’s jobs is not predetermined,” said Janine Berg, senior economist in the Research Department and co-author of the report. “With the right policies, social dialogue and gender-responsive design, we can avert reinforcing existing discrimination.”

Strong labour market institutions and social dialogue are critical to this process. By involving governments, employers and workers in shaping how GenAI is introduced at work, technological change can support decent work and advance a more inclusive future of work for all.

Eleven women honored as they are shaping the future of robotics

Mar 05, 2026 — Global industrial robotics installations are forecast to surpass 700,000 units in 2028 – representing a compound annual growth rate of about 7% (CAGR, 2025-2028). On their way to strengthen competitiveness, companies actively set up strategies to benefit from female participation. Success stories from the Americas, Asia and Europe show how women contribute to the development of next-generation robotic systems. To give women in the industry more visibility and acknowledgment, the International Federation of Robotics awarded 11 women shaping the future of robotics in 2026.

“Women are critical contributors in the fast‑growing field of robotics,” says Dr. Susanne Bieller, General Secretary of the International Federation of Robotics. “This is clearly illustrated by diverse teams developing unbiased AI technology and next-generation robotics systems. These projects aim to open up new sectors for automation, not only in traditional manufacturing settings, but also in healthcare and elderly care, or in consumer markets.”

The Global Gender Gap Report 2025 by the World Economic Forum showed that more and more women have entered the labor market around the world: Today, over 40% of the global workforce are women. However, the proportion of women in the workforce varies greatly by industry. While the rate of female participation in consumer services, education and care services exceeds 50%, manufacturing does not even rank among the top ten industries, with participation by women amounting to less than 35%. This result corresponds with the fact that the share of women within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is below 30%.

Ensuring women contribute to the development of robotics is key to building future-ready industries: This is demonstrated by the success stories of IFR’s 11 Women Shaping the Future of Robotics in 2026. This year’s awardees are in alphabetical order:

• Younseal Eum – AeiROBOT, South Korea
• Stefania Ferrero – Comau, Italy
• Christina Jørgensen – Universal Robots, Denmark 
• Allison Krumpe – HealthTech Partners Global, USA 
• Henrike Neulen – Intrinsic, Germany
• Asami Sasao – Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Japan
• Kristina Schunk – Schunk, Germany
• Mikell Taylor – General Motors, USA 
• Susanne Timsjö – ABB Robotics, Sweden
• Dana Whalls – Association for Advancing Automation (A3), USA
• Prof. Rong Xiong – IPLUSMOBOT/ Zhejiang University, China

The IFR congratulates all Women in Robotics 2026. More details, including the profiles of the individual women, will be published successively on the IFR website. A summary you will already find here.

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ASEAN shall develop friendly relations and mutually beneficial dialogues, cooperation and partnerships with countries and sub-regional, regional and international organisations and institutions. This includes external partners, ASEAN entities, human rights bodies, non-ASEAN Member States Ambassadors to ASEAN, ASEAN committees in third countries and international organisations, as well as international / regional organisations.