カテゴリー: Thailand
Border conflict has roots in colonial maps and long-standing ‘sibling rivalry’Thailand and Cambodia have been locked in a border dispute for more than a century, which exploded again in the summer of 2025. Peace efforts have had mixed results and fight…
Thai PM says military will keep fighting and Cambodia suspends border crossings as casualties riseThailand-Cambodia fighting explainedThailand’s caretaker prime minister has denied the existence of a ceasefire with Cambodia, despite Donald Trump announ…
Move follows a disagreement with the largest grouping in parliament, with elections to be held within 45-60 daysThailand’s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, announced on Thursday that he is “returning power to the people”, moving to dissolve parliam…
Displaced people in Thailand voice doubts that Donald Trump can stop the fighting as violence flares on the borderHalf a million flee as deadly Cambodia-Thailand border clashes escalateRangsan Angda and many of his neighbours in border areas of Thailan…
At least 20 killed and almost 200 injured, as Trump claims he can settle hostilities ‘pretty quickly’What’s behind the Thailand-Cambodia clashes – explained in 30 secondsDeadly fighting has continued along the disputed border of Cambodia and Thailand, …
After a ceasefire deal he brokered collapsed, Trump told a rally in Pennsylvania that he would ‘make a call’ to ‘stop a war’ between Thailand and Cambodia US president Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he will make a call regarding reignited hostilitie…
Hostilities have flared in the contested border area after a Trump-brokered ceasefire deal has broken downStretching across more than 817km (508 miles), the shared land border between Thailand and Cambodia has been marred by conflict for more than a ce…
Each side has blamed the other for renewed clashes, which have derailed a ceasefire brokered by Donald TrumpDeadly clashes have escalated along the disputed Thailand-Cambodia border as both sides blamed each other for the fighting and vowed to defend t…
Thailand has launched airstrikes along its disputed border with Cambodia after the two countries accused each other of breaching a ceasefire deal brokered by the US president, Donald Trump. Four Cambodian civilians and at least one Thai soldier have be…
Seizures and warrants involve Chinese-Cambodian tycoon Chen Zhi, who heads US-sanctioned Prince Group, and Cambodians Kok An and Yim LeakThailand has seized assets worth more than $300m, including shares in a major regional energy company, and issued a…
Much improved response systems are struggling to cope with ever more powerful and destructive stormsDeath toll from Indonesia floods passes 700 as 1 million evacuatedFamilies stranded on their rooftops. Homes buried by fast-flowing mud. Jagged brown cr…
About 3.2 million people on Sumatra island have been affected, 2,600 have been injured and 504 are missingThe number of people killed by floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island rose to 708 on Tuesday, the country’s disaster agency said, wit…
Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for the multibillion dollar scam industry, which has proliferated in the region in recent yearsScam centres are compounds often linked to transnational criminal networks that are part of a global, multibill…
Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel as they raced to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed more than 1,100 people across four countries in Asia.Millions of people have been affected by a combination of tropical cyclones a…
From Thailand to Indonesia, torrential flooding has carried away people’s possessions and homes, upending entire communitiesHow cyclones and monsoon rains converged to devastate parts of Asia – visual guideAminah Ali, 63, was at home in the Pidie Jaya …