Divergent strategies on border disputes could be solved with an ASEAN solution. But is there the political will? The fighting along the Cambodia–Thailand border in July 2025 was short-lived but very telling. More than 140,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to five days of artillery fire and skirmishes. MoreContinue Reading
On July 29, 2025, Thai troops captured twenty Cambodian soldiers near the Chong Te border crossing. This occurred just half a day after Malaysia helped bring an end to the fighting. The Cambodian military said Thai troops had invited the soldiers to take a commemorative photograph. As they drew closer,Continue Reading
The tensions over Cambodia and Thailand are clearly more than a border dispute and are indicative of how the power of the media and military, as well as international biases, can threaten truth and silence the authentic voice of the people. While Cambodia and Thailand have links with a sharedContinue Reading
PHNOM PENH – The Cambodia-Thailand border conflict, ignited by a May 28 incident in which a Khmer soldier was killed by a Thai soldier close to the Ta Moan Thom temple, rekindled the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute, which has since grown into a serious humanitarian and legal problem. Cambodia accuses ThailandContinue Reading
