Category: Cambodia
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Hun Manet anchors labor doctrine to scam-law architecture
A Labour Day address located precisely to a criminal-code instrument promulgated three weeks earlier.
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AEMM Joint Statement Will Register EU’s Cambodia Posture at Political Level
Prak Sokhonn flies to Brunei for the 25th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting as four EU engagement channels affecting Cambodia remain publicly unaligned.
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Thailand’s UNCLOS Pivot Removes the Legal Shields the Cancelled MOU Provided
Cambodia’s 24 April MFA statement preserves UNCLOS options as Thailand’s NSC approves MOU-2001 cancellation, removing legal shields specific to Bangkok.
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Cambodia’s Beijing Elevation Matches Hanoi, Bypasses ASEAN Middle Tier
Phnom Penh folded interior-security cooperation into the formal channel and placed its legal-architecture Thailand position in Wang Yi’s direct runway to Bangkok. The Chinese record kept the original framing.
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Cambodia’s SPIN Pipeline Runs at 55 Percent of National FDI Inflows
Year-one proposals concentrate in Kratie at eighteen times its population weight, spread across Vietnamese agro-industrial capital, Chinese-financed infrastructure, and domestic partners.
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Four Months After the Ceasefire, Cambodia’s Protests Mount Without ASEAN Records
Cambodia’s 19 April protest names seven sites across three provinces. The ASEAN body mandated to verify post-ceasefire conduct has published no record.
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Cambodia’s Billion-Dollar Energy Choice: Legitimate Target, Opaque Terms
A BOT-structured gigawatt project advances Cambodia’s own renewable target. The financing, EIA, and tender conditions are not public.
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Thailand Demands Cambodia Wait for a Commission Its Government Is Moving to Dissolve
Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow says border talks cannot proceed until the Joint Boundary Commission is reconstituted. The treaty establishing that commission is under parliamentary termination study. The new Thai cabinet that was supposed to resolve the commission’s procedural block has already been sworn in.
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Control Without Sovereignty: How Thailand’s Press Is Redrawing the Cambodia Border in Plain Sight
Through four print cycles since December 2025, Thai English-language reporting has converted three contested Cambodia-side sites from wartime seizure zones into settled background facts. Thailand’s own government maintains that control does not equal sovereignty.
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Polls, Mission Groups, and the Framework Anutin Signed
Reading Thailand’s second Anutin cabinet through the Cambodia file, and what Cambodia has already put on the record.
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The Forum Cambodia Couldn’t Use: Reading Phnom Penh’s Multi-Track Border Strategy
Thailand refused this month to convene the bilateral mechanism its foreign ministry has called the sole framework for resolving the border dispute with Cambodia.
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Cambodia’s Counterfeit Chain Runs Through Its Border, Not Its Capital
The US Trade Representative places China as the overwhelming source of global counterfeits. Cambodia’s new customs architecture is designed to catch them at the frontier.
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Forty Years on Paper: The ASEAN Energy Mechanism That Has Never Been Activated
Cambodia’s foreign minister named every ASEAN energy security mechanism at the 13 April meeting; not one of them has ever been activated, and the gas pipeline doesn’t even reach Cambodia after three decades of discussion.
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Thailand’s UN Promise on Border Talks Has Come Due. Thailand Says It’s Not Ready.
Thailand told the UN Security Council it would resume border talks after forming a new government. The government formed. Thailand said it’s not ready.
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Cambodia Secures UNESCO’s First Operational Commitment on Preah Vihear Damage
Cambodia secured emergency funding, confirmed expert deployment, and activated the international heritage protection alliance for Preah Vihear, while placing a formal denial of military use directly before the institution that enforces the Hague Convention.
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Cambodia Sent Five Requests for Border Talks. Thailand Has Not Agreed to One.
Since December’s ceasefire, Cambodia has sent five diplomatic notes requesting joint border work; Thailand, which told the UN Security Council it would resume after forming a cabinet, has agreed to none.
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Cambodia Breaks Ground on Main Canal Segment, 20 Months After First Ceremony
Cambodia broke ground on the Funan Techo Canal’s main 151.6 km segment on April 11, 2026, twenty months after a first ceremony that preceded Chinese financing and while compensation for nearly 10,000 affected households remains unconfirmed as resolved.
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Thailand’s $620 Million Scam Crackdown Points Back at Bangkok
The man Thailand chose to follow the scam money was linked to the scam money.
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Thailand’s border compliance claims contradicted by its own ceasefire text, AP dateline and legislative record
Thailand claims compliance with a ceasefire whose text it selectively cites, whose territory AP identifies as Cambodian, and whose bilateral mechanisms its own legislature is dismantling.
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France Confirms Archive Access for Cambodia in Border Dispute, Locks In State Visit
Cambodia converted a French diplomatic gesture into a confirmed evidentiary commitment on the Thai border, backed by France’s own foreign ministry and locked to a Macron state visit in November.