Asean News Headlines at 10pm on Tuesday (May 5, 2026)

People take part in the annual "Look Noo" rocket-launching competition, a tradition of the ethnic Mon community in which rockets packed with explosives are tethered to cables and fired toward pagoda-shaped targets to honor deceased Buddhist monks, and in some areas form part of Songkran celebrations, in Pathum Thani province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, May 3, 2026. - Photo: Reuters

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* King's Birthday a compulsory paid public holiday, private sector bosses reminded