{"id":73055,"date":"2025-07-25T17:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jul\/25\/thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-live-updates-thai-dispute-conflict-latest-news"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:34:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T09:34:31","slug":"thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-live-acting-thai-pm-says-fighting-could-develop-into-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73055","title":{"rendered":"Thailand-Cambodia border clashes: acting Thai PM says fighting \u2018could develop into war\u2019 \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by Phumtham Wechayachai come as death toll climbs to 16 on second day of clashes along contested border<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/25\/thailand-and-cambodia-how-have-you-been-affected-by-the-border-dispute\">Thailand and Cambodia: have you been affected by the border dispute?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thailand has rejected offers of mediation from third countries<\/strong> in its ongoing border conflict with Cambodia, insisting the dispute should be resolved bilaterally.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Reuters, Thai foreign ministry spokesperson Nikorndej Balankura said that while the <strong>United States<\/strong>, <strong>China<\/strong>, and <strong>Malaysia<\/strong> have all offered to facilitate dialogue, Bangkok is not seeking outside intervention at this stage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jul\/25\/thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-live-updates-thai-dispute-conflict-latest-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments by Phumtham Wechayachai come as death toll climbs to 16 on second day of clashes along contested borderThailand and Cambodia: have you been affected by the border dispute?Thailand has rejected offers of mediation from third countries in its on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73069,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73055\/revisions\/73069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}