Thailand and Cambodia to talk peace in Malaysia
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Delegations including the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia met in Malaysia on Monday in efforts to agree on a ceasefire deal on the fifth day of their border conflict.Thailand and Cambodia are locked in their deadliest conflict in more than a decade after both sides traded artillery fire and air strikes along contested stretches of their 817km border.
Of course, trouble at the 508-mile (817 km) shared border is nothing new. For over a century, Thailand and Cambodia have contested sovereignty at various undemarcated points in the thick jungle punctuated with culturally-significant temples albeit with scant strategic or economic value.
Thailand and Cambodia agreed to cease hostilities without conditions at the residence of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
A personal feud between two of Southeast Asia’s political titans is inflaming the worst violence on the border in more than a decade.
The border crisis between Thailand and Cambodia has laid bare the illusory nature of Cambodia’s political transition. Far from fading into the background, Hun
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World Politics Review on MSNHun Sen Is Inflaming the Thailand-Cambodia Crisis for a ReasonA border crisis has plunged Thailand back into political instability, in part because Cambodia’s ex-leader is stirring up trouble for domestic gain.
As fighting between Thai and Cambodian forces enters its third day, with nationalist groups from both sides clashing fiercely on social media, opposition groups continue their daily attacks on the Shinawatra family without letup.
Thaksin said he feared his conversations with Mr Hun Sen would be secretly recorded. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Len Leng, Kocha Olarn, Helen Regan, Lex Harvey and Jonny Hallam, CNN Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — Cambodia and Thailand will meet in Malaysia on Monday for peace talks after days of deadly clashes on their disputed border sent civilians scrambling for safety and relations between the two neighbors cratering.
June, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was then-prime minister of Thailand, made a call to Cambodia’s de facto leader, Hun Sen, to address a recent escalation along the border between the two countries that had left a Cambodian soldier dead.