Indonesia raises budget for free meal programme

With the theme “Regional Cooperation for Joint Advancement”, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) 2025

Singapore and the Philippines are set to deepen their collaboration in several areas, including renewable energy, sustainability, healthcare and civil service development.

The "ASEAN Visa" is launched on the basis of comprehensive mutual visa exemption with countries such as Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, as well as the issuance of the "Lancang-Mekong visa" for Mekong River nations, aiming to further facilitate cross-border travel within the region.

The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a breakthrough strategy, ‘Choose Europe to Start and Scale’. By addressing a host of long-standing policy bottlenecks, the new roadmap is expected to provide a crucial lever for enhancing the European Union’s (EU) competitiveness.

The 2025 African Defence Leaders’ Conference, which was recently held in Kenya, highlighted a wide range of security challenges facing the continent, including violence, extremism, the climate crisis, and misinformation.

Some buyers have cited Indonesia’s reference coal price as a possible deterrent, arguing it was higher

Following the official decision of the US, under President Donald Trump, to lift comprehensive economic sanctions on Syria, the European Union (EU) has also enacted legislation to remove all economic restrictions imposed on the Middle Eastern country.

Indonesia now holds some 31 billion tonnes from an estimated total resource base of 97 billion tonnes.

Talking about Vietnam’s role within the bloc, the PM noted that he maintains regular contact with Vietnamese leaders

Running from May 28-29, the apex event covers a range of topics such as agentic and embodied AI, space satellite and communications, quantum compute, and digital sustainability through a series of plenary sessions.