ASEAN has made progress in developing a post-2025 vision for regional communities. The seventh meeting of the ASEAN Community High Level Working Group on the Post-2025 Vision was held in Indonesia on March 19. The two-day meeting, co chaired by Indonesia and Malaysia, aims to further discuss the formulation of a vision statement for the ASEAN Community after 2025.

Timor Leste participated as an observer for the first time.

ASEAN has made progress in developing a vision for regional communities beyond 2025, adopting a society wide, inclusive and participatory approach, and conducting consultations with various stakeholders such as the Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity, and the ASEAN Business Advisory Committee. These consultations aim to ensure a comprehensive, pragmatic, balanced Develop a vision beyond 2025 in an inclusive and coordinated manner.

The Myanmar government has designated a new protected public forest area in Kata County, Sagaing Province. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the country recently designated over 550 hectares of area as "Gahe-2" protected public forest. The move aims to protect watershed areas to protect farmland and biodiversity. According to local media reports, this Southeast Asian country hopes to establish 30% of its total area as a forest reserve and 10% as a protected area.

This year, the Malaysian government will focus on addressing three main issues to achieve high income country status by 2026, including strengthening its finances by focusing on increasing income and rationalizing expenditure.

According to the Ministry of Economy, Malaysia will identify new growth points, including high-tech industries, and give priority to digitization such as electronics and electricity, aerospace, intelligent agriculture, and biomass energy, and reform its economic structure into a higher value chain.

The Ministry stated that the government will identify new growth points, including high-tech industries, and give priority to digitization such as power electronics, aerospace, intelligent agriculture, and biomass energy, while reforming the economic structure and developing towards a higher value chain.

It will also focus on developing a service based economy, empowering small and medium-sized enterprises, and encouraging research, development, commercialization, and innovation.

Recently, the police station in Chulapang County, Luokun Prefecture, Thailand, received a report from a village head in the local Thung Pho town, claiming that a large number of strangers had been found in the local rubber plantation, and it was speculated that they might be foreigners illegally entering Thailand. Subsequently, the police immediately went to the scene to investigate.

After the police arrived at the scene, they found that the 42 foreigners were all Indians, including 32 males and 10 females.

Upon preliminary inquiry, it was learned that they illegally entered Larong Prefecture in Thailand from Rakhine State in Myanmar, and then planned to travel to Malaysia by taking two pickup trucks.

Upon arriving at the above-mentioned area, it was found that there were checkpoints, so the two drivers abandoned them in the local rubber plantation and drove away.

It is also understood that the above-mentioned workers also need to pay entry fees, including 150000 Baht/person for men, 90000 to 150000 Baht/person for women and children. Currently, the police have taken all the above-mentioned workers back to the police station, and will handle them according to legal procedures in the future.