AS Easter weekend rolls around, senior finance and central bank officials from the Asia-Pacific region find themselves once again in a tropical island paradise.
Finance ministers of the 18 countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum this weekend are holding their annual meeting in Indonesia, at Sanur Beach, on the island of Bali. Despite the setting, delegates have serious business to discuss.
Issues on the official agenda include hot money, the effect that exchange rate movements have on trade and investment, and mobilisation of domestic resources to fund infrastructure development.
Behind the scenes, the turmoil on the international currency markets and the continuing trade row between China and the United States are expected to dominate discussions.
The sharp depreciation of the US dollar against the yen and the deutschemark has sparked calls for currency controls and a return to a fixed exchange rate.
An appreciated yen has left countries from the Philippines to China struggling under the weight of heavy yen loans.