Kanupriya Kapoor

Dec 4, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Kanupriya Kapoor

Singapore’s ruling party appointed Prime Minister Lawrence Wong as its secretary general, in a widely expected move ahead of a general election due next year. The appointment, announced in a statement on Wednesday, consolidates Wong’s leadership as the People’s Action Party hopes to regain voter confidence amid a series of setbacks, including a former minister sentenced to jail.

Nov 17, 2024 | bnnbloomberg.ca | Kanupriya Kapoor

(Bloomberg) -- The developed world has money to fight climate change, but it’s choosing to direct trillions of dollars a year toward military armaments instead, according to Indian author Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh, whose acclaimed books have centered on socio-economics and global warming, spoke to Bloomberg Green ahead of this year’s United Nations climate talks at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, on Oct. 27.

Nov 17, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Kanupriya Kapoor

The writer of The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis isn’t convinced there will be a credible deal agreed at this year’s United Nations climate talks. The developed world has money to fight climate change, but it’s choosing to direct trillions of dollars a year toward military armaments instead, according to Indian author Amitav Ghosh.

Oct 1, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Kanupriya Kapoor

Southeast Asia will miss its renewable energy production goal, highlighting the difficulties in weaning the region off fossil fuels like coal and liquefied natural gas, according to an intergovernmental think tank. Clean power will make up 19% of the regional total by the end of next year, the ASEAN Centre for Energy said in a report, compared with an Association of Southeast Asian Nations target of 23%. Southeast Asia may become a net importer of LNG by 2027, it said.

May 3, 2024 | exbulletin.com | Kanupriya Kapoor |Ed Davies

JAKARTA (Reuters) – A series of Indonesian regional elections this year, followed by a presidential and parliamentary vote in 2019, are unlikely to deter foreign investment in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, Reuters said President Joko Widodo's chief of staff. A deadly campaign to rule Jakarta last year exposed religious and ethnic divisions in the world's largest Muslim-majority country, as Islamist-led rallies targeted the then-governor, an ethnic Christian Chinese woman accused of blasphemy.