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Cambodia accused Thailand on Monday of striking deep inside its territory, bombing the province that is home to the centuries-old Angkor temples — the country’s top tourist draw — for the first time in a reignited border conflict.
Five days of fighting in July killed dozens of people before a truce was brokered and then broken within months, part of a long-standing conflict rooted in the colonial-era demarcation of the countries’ 800-kilometre frontier.
At least three members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed in a firefight with government forces in the mountains of Pange village in Jaro, Leyte, early Monday, the Philippine Army reported.
Brig. Gen. Pompeyo Jason Almagro, commander of the Philippine Army’s (PA) 802nd Infantry Brigade, said those slain were a squad leader and two members of the squad’s medical unit.
The Karen National Union (KNU)’s armed wing and allies on Friday recaptured the Myanmar–Thai border town of Mawdaung in Tanintharyi Region after a hiatus of 35 years, according to resistance fighters.
The hill town is located at the Singkhon Pass border where Thailand’s Prachuap Khiri Khan Province is at its thinnest. It served as the headquarters of the KNU’s Myeik District until the junta occupied it in 1990.
President Donald Trump on Sunday co-signed a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia, alongside leaders from Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur.
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim joined Trump for the signing ceremony, which formalized a deal aimed at preventing further conflict along the disputed border between Thailand and Cambodia.
Myanmar’s ruling junta said Saturday that it had recaptured a town on a trade highway to China from an ethnic armed group in the country’s war-wracked north.
Following a 16-day operation, “on 16 October, Tatmadaw reoccupied Hsipaw completely,” the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said, referring to the military by its Burmese name.