SI SA KET, Feb 18 — Construction of new bunkers and repairs of those damaged during the four days of clashes between Cambodian and Thai troops near the disputed border area will start Monday, said Somsak Suwansujarit, governor of Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province bordering Cambodia. The Thai government has allocated sufficient budget to build […]
Bangkok – Thailand is to send its foreign minister to the UN Security Council in New York next week to give its version of a border conflict with Cambodia, officials said Wednesday. Kasit Piromya is to attend a council meeting on the conflict over disputed land near the 11th-century Preah Vihear border temple, which erupted […]
SI SA KET, Feb 7 – Cambodian troops using semi-automatic rifles, mortars and recoilless rifles fired on a Thai military base in Si Sa Ket province bordering Cambodia Monday morning for a fourth straight day, but Thai troops did not retaliate, according to the Thai Second Army Region. The latest firing which began around 8am […]
A local tourist has been killed at a disputed border temple where there has been fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops over the past four days. The Cambodian tourist was apparently killed while photographing the disputed Preah Vihear Temple on the Cambodian side of the border. The Cambodian government says the World Heritage ruin has […]
Bangkok – Thousands of Thai civilians on Monday fled fighting between Thai and Cambodian troops in an intensified border dispute that has raised calls for international intervention. Renewed fighting broke out on Sunday evening in Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province and Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province, about 450km north-east of Bangkok. Fourteen Thai soldiers and two […]
SI SA KET, Feb 6 – Seven people have been wounded in renewed fighting between Thai and Cambodian soldiers on Sunday after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday. The fresh clash erupted at about 6.40pm at Phu Makaua, where a Thai soldier was killed during the clash on Friday. Local villagers evacuated […]
A 3rd round of fighting has erupted between Thai and Cambodian troops at the border. Tanks are being used. Initial reports say 2 Thai civilians have been injured. Cambodia: 10 Soldiers, Civilians Killed in Clashes The Cambodian Foreign Ministry has said Thailand violated Cambodian territory in 3 areas during the clashes yesterday, resulting in 10 […]
BANGKOK, Feb 5 — As fresh fighting at the disputed Thai-Cambodian border erupted, the Thai Commerce Minister Pornthiva Nakasai has decided to postpone a Thai goods exhibition scheduled to be held in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh for an indefinite period, a spokesman for the ministry said. The spokesman said Ms Pornthiva had ordered […]
