Last week saw back-to-back visits to Sri Lanka by two South East Asian leaders, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsieng Loong and Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo.
Special Summit to be held in Sydney in mid-March is surely the least talked about and yet most important regional forum ever hosted by this country.
The closer ties between the two sides are occurring in the context of wider regional changes.
A closer look at a subregional counterterrorism mechanism launched this week in Indonesia.
Priority areas include fintech and e-commerce; huge opportunity for Asean with rise of China, India
While we commemorate 25 years of Asean-India relations, India’s ties with South-east Asia date back more than 2,000 years.
Singapore and Sri Lanka have signed a free trade agreement that will provide tariff savings and grant Singapore firms greater access to the Sri Lankan market.
Mounting pressure on New Delhi to give an early consent to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership — a mega regional trade pact being negotiated by sixteen nations — the 10-member ASEAN expressed hope that India would not let the bloc down in its efforts to conclude the agreement this year.
<p>Time: November 2025<br /> By: WTO and International Trade Group, Legal Department – VCCI</p>
