These areas include promoting ASEAN to ensure the region’s peace and stability, economic development and having stronger ties between both peoples.
“What is important is for us to resolve this as objectively and as rationally as possible," Mr Heng said.
“We must build on what we already have in the ASEAN economic community, and work on how we can complement one another even better in the future,” he said.Mr Heng cited the example of digital banking and e-commerce, pointing out that many in the region still do not have a bank account because banks have found it too expensive to serve people in the outlying areas.
“But with e-commerce, with e-payments, if we have a proper system of doing this across the whole of ASEAN, the market is 650 to 660 million people.” “Every ASEAN member state has something unique, whether in terms of its history, its culture, its heritage, or its range of activities and certainly food. It is therefore very useful for us to encourage people to travel, to visit one another, to learn more about each other's history, culture and heritage, and to have a taste of what life is like today,” Mr Heng said.
He said he agreed with comments made by Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad at the Nikkei conference earlier this year on the, that “it is important for us to resolve any differences through proper process, by abiding international norms and regulations and rules”.
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