Asean news headlines as at 9pm on Wednesday (Feb 22)

Lay ministers place ash on the forehead of devotees during Ash Wednesday rites on Feb 22, 2023 outside a church in downtown Manila, Philippines. Filipinos trooped to churches and had their forehead marked with an ash cross in observance of Ash Wednesday after a ban on the lenten tradition the past years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. - AP

Malaysia

* Businessman pleads not guilty to two more Jana Wibawa-linked graft charges