Labour shortage at longan plants, orchards as over 300,000 Cambodians have left
WITH OVER 300,000 Cambodian migrant workers having returned to their homeland due to the five-day clashes along the border that ended on July 28 longan farmers plus owners of plants processing this fruit are facing a labour shortage and while Myanmar workers have been brought in work in their stead at these plants, it […]
Read MoreThai-Cambodian talks moving in positive direction: PM
ACTING Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai said this evening (Aug. 6) that there is an overall positive trend at the Thai-Cambodian General Border Committee (GBC) meeting in Malaysia which started on Monday with talks moving in the right direction, Amarin TV said. While refusing to divulge the details of the important negotiations with observers from […]
Read More50,000 Khmer migrant workers returning home from Thailand
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NO LESS THAN 50,000 Cambodian migrant workers were estimated to legally depart from Thailand to their home country via a checkpoint in eastern Thai border province since the last few days until today (Aug.6) following recent border clashes and due to sustained tensions between the two neighbouring countries, according to […]
Read MoreThailand looking at suing Cambodia at an international court
THAILAND’S National Security Council is exploring avenues to file lawsuits against Cambodia at an international court for violence along the Thai-Cambodian border, Naewna newspaper said today (Aug. 6). Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa said this morning that while the government is preparing to file civil and criminal lawsuits against Cambodia, he does not yet […]
Read MoreKhmers have thousands of drones to hit Thai targets
By Thai Newsroom Reporters CAMBODIA HAS GOTTEN as many as 4,000 drones which could probably be used either in reconnaissance or attack missions against counterforce and countervalue targets in Thailand, according to a former senior government official. Those reconnaissance and attack drones supplied by China and currently at disposal of Cambodian forces might not […]
Read MoreThaksin’s niece not a spy for Khmers: Senior govt official
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A NIECE OF DE FACTO Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra was definitely by no means a spy for Cambodia as bluntly accused on social media, said a senior government official today (Aug.4). Russ Chalichan, assistant to Thailand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Maris Sangiampongsa, categorically dismissed as groundless the allegations circulated online […]
Read MoreThailand not withdrawing troops from border while hoping for good outcome at talks
THAILAND is not withdrawing troops from the border while hoping that the General Border Committee (GBC) meeting that started in Malaysia today, Aug.4, and will continue till Aug. 7 yields good results, Thai Rath newspaper said. Lt. Gen. Boonsin Phadklang, commander of the Second Army Region, said he did not yet know what was […]
Read MoreLeicester City put up banners to tell the world Thailand did not start the clashes
LEICESTER CITY, owned by CEO of King Power Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, put up banners on the pitch and the scoreboard with the message #TruthFromThailand during their pre-season friendly match with Italian club ACF Fiorentina yesterday (Aug. 3) with this ending at 2-0 for the former, Naewna newspaper said today. This is the Thai-own English club’s […]
Read MoreThai military denies using chemical weapons as claimed by Cambodia
THE THAI army flatly denied using chemical weapons in Cambodia as accused by the neighbouring country’s spokesperson and branded it as fake news without any factual basis, Naewna newspaper said. In a Facebook post the Thai army firmly denied the accusation by Lt. Gen. Maly Socheata, a spokesperson of the Cambodian Ministry of Defence, […]
Read MorePM orders strict monitoring of Israel-Iran conflict and Thai-Cambodian border
PRIME MINISTER Paetongtarn Shinawatra today (June 17) ordered strict monitoring of the Israeli-Iranian conflict 24 hours a day and the Thai-Cambodian border tension on hourly basis with no Thais in either Iran or Israel having been injured in the ongoing aerial war so far, TV Channel 7 said. Mr. Jirayu Huangtrakul, spokesperson of the […]
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