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Thailand announced a curfew successful its southeastern Trat Province connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) arsenic warring with Cambodia dispersed to coastal areas of a disputed borderline region, 2 days aft U.S. President and would-be peacemaker Donald Trump said the sides had agreed to stop.
The Southeast Asian neighbours person resorted to arms respective times this twelvemonth since a Cambodian worker was killed successful a May skirmish, reigniting a struggle that has displaced hundreds of thousands of radical connected some sides of the border.
“Overall, determination person been clashes continuously” since Cambodia again reiterated its openness to a ceasefire connected Saturday (December 13), Thai Defence Ministry spokesperson Rear Admiral Surasant Kongsiri told a property league successful Bangkok aft announcing the curfew.
Thailand is unfastened to a diplomatic solution but “Cambodia has to cease hostility archetypal earlier we tin negotiate,” helium said.
Thai forces connected Saturday (December 13) said they had destroyed a span that Cambodia utilized to present dense weapons and different instrumentality to the portion and launched an cognition targeting pre-positioned artillery successful Cambodia’s coastal Koh Kong Province.
Cambodia accused Thailand of striking civilian infrastructure.
Thailand’s curfew covers 5 districts of Trat Province that neighbour Koh Kong, excluding the tourer islands of Koh Chang and Koh Kood. The subject had antecedently imposed a curfew successful the eastbound Sakeo Province, which remains successful force.
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Thailand and Cambodia person exchanged heavy-weapons occurrence astatine aggregate points on their 817 kilometre (508 mile) borderline since Monday (December 8), successful immoderate of the astir aggravated warring since a five-day clash successful July that ended with Mr. Trump and Malaysian mediation.
Mr. Trump said helium spoke to Thailand’s caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian premier Hun Manet connected Friday (December 12), and said they had agreed to “cease each shooting”.
On Saturday (December 13), Mr. Anutin vowed to support warring “until we consciousness nary much harm and threats to our onshore and people”.
A White House spokesperson aboriginal said Mr. Trump expected each parties to honour commitments and that “he volition clasp anyone accountable arsenic indispensable to halt the sidesplitting and guarantee durable peace”.
