On this week's edition of Global Focus, we're looking into how ASEAN countries plan to tackle emerging economic challenges.

Speaking from the Indonesia Economic Summit 2025 this week, ASEAN representatives stressed that the 10-member block had a "crucial role" in fostering a "resilient and rules-based multilateral trading system."


This year's meeting in Jakarta comes amidst deepening uncertainties surrounding the United States' trade policy on the region, with business leaders calling on members to boost ties with the "ASEAN Plus Three" which includes China, Japan and South Korea.


After 9:45, we learn more about a clinical project tackling depression led insomnia.


9:05am-9:45am: Indonesia Economic Summit 2025
9:05am-9:45am: Syed Nizamuddin Sayed Khassim, Malaysia-based Geopolitical Analyst 
9:05am-9:45am: Andrew Leung, International and Independent Strategist / former Director General of Social Welfare (Hong Kong)
9:30am-9:45am: Josef Gregory Mahoney, Professor of Politics and International Relations, East China Normal University


9:45am-10:00am: CUHK study on depression and insomnia
9:45am-10:00am: Yun Kwok Wing, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong