Digital Trade: Timor-Leste is preparing to join ASEAN’s digital economy framework, with work focused on linking customs systems, expanding electronic payments and completing the legal groundwork. Membership could help local firms reach regional markets. Energy: An ASEAN report classifies Timor-Leste’s battery-storage readiness as foundational, pointing to regulatory and market rules as key hurdles to wider adoption. Agriculture and Fisheries: Vietnam and Timor-Leste are exploring cooperation in rice, coffee and fisheries, including technology transfer, training and seafood processing, as Dili seeks to strengthen domestic production and food security. Trade Links: Thailand and Timor-Leste are accelerating an air-services agreement that could enable direct Bangkok–Dili flights, while identifying agriculture, food processing, energy, infrastructure and tourism as areas for investment. Regional Business: Timor-Leste joined the China-ASEAN Expo as a co-host for the first time, gaining a platform to pursue trade and investment opportunities.