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ASEAN · KEY STATS
◆ASEAN GDP $4.26T ASEANstats · 2025 · ASEAN-10 basis ◆Population 693.2M ASEANstats · 2025 · eleven markets ◆Trade in Goods $4.37T ▲ up 13.7% on 2024 ASEANstats · 2025 · eleven markets ◆Trade in Services $1.40T ASEANstats · 2025 ◆FDI Inflows $244B ▲ up 10% on 2024 UNCTAD WIR 2026 · 2025 · eleven economies ◆Intra-ASEAN Exports 22.5% ASEANstats · 2024 · top export destination ◆ASEAN GDP $4.26T ASEANstats · 2025 · ASEAN-10 basis ◆Population 693.2M ASEANstats · 2025 · eleven markets ◆Trade in Goods $4.37T ▲ up 13.7% on 2024 ASEANstats · 2025 · eleven markets ◆Trade in Services $1.40T ASEANstats · 2025 ◆FDI Inflows $244B ▲ up 10% on 2024 UNCTAD WIR 2026 · 2025 · eleven economies ◆Intra-ASEAN Exports 22.5% ASEANstats · 2024 · top export destination ◆ASEAN GDP $4.26T ASEANstats · 2025 · ASEAN-10 basis ◆Population 693.2M ASEANstats · 2025 · eleven markets ◆Trade in Goods $4.37T ▲ up 13.7% on 2024 ASEANstats · 2025 · eleven markets ◆Trade in Services $1.40T ASEANstats · 2025 ◆FDI Inflows $244B ▲ up 10% on 2024 UNCTAD WIR 2026 · 2025 · eleven economies ◆Intra-ASEAN Exports 22.5% ASEANstats · 2024 · top export destination ◆ASEAN GDP $4.26T ASEANstats · 2025 · ASEAN-10 basis ◆Population 693.2M ASEANstats · 2025 · eleven markets ◆Trade in Goods $4.37T ▲ up 13.7% on 2024 ASEANstats · 2025 · eleven markets ◆Trade in Services $1.40T ASEANstats · 2025 ◆FDI Inflows $244B ▲ up 10% on 2024 UNCTAD WIR 2026 · 2025 · eleven economies ◆Intra-ASEAN Exports 22.5% ASEANstats · 2024 · top export destination
aseanx · About

aseanx is a regional community enterprise, in beta live, working to bridge Southeast Asia's information divide across all eleven markets — through aseanx Intelligence, MERIDIAN and aseanx TV.

About aseanx · Beta live

aseanx is a regional community enterprise working to bridge Southeast Asia’s information divide.

By bringing together local businesses, thought leaders and policymakers across all eleven markets, we strive to turn shared intelligence into long-term community impact — through aseanx Intelligence, MERIDIAN, aseanx TV and the aseanx Forum, which provides the platform for the region’s most important exchanges, ultimately serving one purpose: to bring lasting impact to the peoples of Southeast Asia.

The eleven ASEAN markets, Timor-Leste included
Eleven markets · one region
Container terminal in Southeast Asia The fragmentation problem
Challenges

Navigating the challenges ASEAN faces — together.

ASEAN is home to over 690 million people and stands as one of the world’s most dynamic economic regions. Yet its full potential remains fragmented. When communities and enterprises operate in isolation, opportunities pass us by.

Three structural gaps
01 · G2B · B2G · B2B

The Intelligence Gap

Critical signals move in three directions — government to business, business to government, and business to business. aseanx aims to bring data out of closed-door sessions and make it accessible to local businesses, founders, policy makers and communities, so that what shapes Southeast Asia reaches the people it affects as well as the institutions that decide it.

02 · Eleven regimes

The Access Barrier

Navigating eleven distinct regulatory environments, currencies and ownership structures should not be a privilege reserved for multinationals. aseanx seeks to build accessible frameworks that allow local enterprises to consider neighbouring markets without starting again from the beginning.

03 · From intent to outcome

The Coordination Challenge

Many promising regional connections struggle to find momentum. aseanx hopes to support deliberate partnerships through structured engagement, so that local commitments move toward practical, community-focused outcomes.

Vision

Aspiring toward a connected, inclusive and resilient Southeast Asia.

Vision · eleven markets, one hub

We envision a region where eleven markets can gradually be read with greater clarity — serving as an accessible intelligence hub for ASEAN enterprise and policy. Our goal is to offer a gathering point where regional leaders, local entrepreneurs, global investors and enterprises can exchange ideas on the future of Southeast Asian trade.

That is the journey aseanx aims to support: offering a transparent, sourced perspective of the region — built for the change-makers who navigate ASEAN’s fragmentation today, and who aspire toward a regional economy that offers equitable opportunity for all.

The nexus of eleven markets
Marina Bay skyline, Singapore Policy meets grassroots commerce
Mission

Contributing shared intelligence toward real community impact.

Mission · the G2B / B2G / B2B framework

aseanx seeks to contribute to narrowing the Intelligence Gap and the Access Barrier through a collaborative G2B, B2G and B2B intelligence framework for Southeast Asia.

By facilitating dialogue between policy and grassroots commerce, aseanx aspires to give local operators, investors and public institutions the sourced context needed to better understand the region — helping turn shared intent into positive community development over time.

What is aseanx

An independent platform for gradual, collective progress.

aseanx was created to help address some of the complexities that ASEAN’s fragmentation creates. As an independent community enterprise, it provides a live, sourced read of policy, price, trade and sentiment across all eleven markets — brought to the region through a media-led platform of forums, briefings and published analysis designed to keep the regional conversation going continuously, mainstreaming it and bringing it within reach of the businesses, institutions and communities it affects.

Who aseanx serves · shaping the region together
Businesses

Businesses gain better discoverability

Regional enterprises find and connect with partners, buyers and counterparts across all eleven markets.

Government agencies

Government agencies reach the operators they serve

Public initiatives gain a platform to reach the businesses and communities that navigate them daily.

International organisations

International organisations engage the region as one

Global institutions align their programmes with the enterprises and priorities shaping Southeast Asia.

Night highway interchange with light trails One ecosystem · three initiatives

Our goal is modest: to contribute to a shared dividend the wider ASEAN community can benefit from — built for the operators, investors and public advocates working across capitals to shape a better regional picture.

01 · Beta live

aseanx Intelligence

A live, sourced read of policy, price, trade and sentiment across all eleven markets — aimed at making regional data more accessible.

02 · Beta live

MERIDIAN

aseanx’s published assessment framework. Every conclusion is dated and tested against stated evidence, in an effort to promote analytical transparency.

03 · Beta live

aseanx TV

An ongoing window into the region — rendering eleven markets through one live view of the signals and local voices driving them.

Founder & CEO

Jukhee Hong

Jukhee Hong, Founder & CEO of aseanx

A strategic specialist working at the intersection of ASEAN private-sector growth, public policy and community development, Jukhee has spent more than fifteen years supporting regional economic integration through research, policy advocacy, business network development and organisational leadership.

Since 2010 she has been involved in ASEAN’s economic agenda, contributing to initiatives that encourage cross-border collaboration and private-sector participation in regional policymaking. Most recently she served as Executive Director of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council Malaysia, supporting council members in delivering Malaysia’s private-sector mandate for the ASEAN Chairmanship 2025.

A PhD candidate and former media professional, she draws on deep institutional knowledge to develop aseanx — a practical digital initiative and community enterprise designed to support leaders navigating a fast-evolving regional economy.

Frameworks for impact

Three areas of work.

aseanx works with regional and global partners across all eleven markets. The work follows three principles: communicate, connect and deliver impact.

Communicate · Connect · Deliver impact
aseanx
Amplify · Communicate

Research, Publication and Convening

Policy frameworks and economic analysis often remain within closed forums or unread reports. As an independent platform, aseanx publishes and convenes. It brings decision-makers from government, capital and business together through forums, executive briefings and open publications, so that analysis reaches the institutions and communities it affects across all eleven markets.

Connect · Partner

Partnerships Across Southeast Asia and Beyond

aseanx works with a network of partners across Southeast Asia and beyond. Through them, businesses, social enterprises and institutions gain a closer familiarity with the local markets and their communities, and partnerships between government and business, and among businesses, are supported.

Activate · Deliver impact

Initiatives and Outcomes

This work addresses the gap between commitment and execution. aseanx contributes practical frameworks for regional alliances, so that strategic commitments can become community development projects.

Amplify · Connect · Activate

Together, we amplify the voices that shape the region, connect the dots that matter, and activate the collaboration that delivers impact for the future of ASEAN.

We would be glad to build this alongside you. Whether you bring ideas, a mandate or investment, together we can turn shared intent into lasting impact across all eleven markets.