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Thailand and Cambodia take steps to ease tensions after a deadly clash

10-15-08 Fighting erupts along Thai-Cambodia border: officials

by Tang Chin Sothy Wed Oct 15, 5:03 AM ET

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia (AFP) - Fighting erupted on the Thai-Cambodia border, military officials from both sides said on Wednesday, as a row over a disputed patch of land near the ancient Preah Vihear temple boiled over.

10-15-08 Fighting erupts on Thai-Cambodia border

Agence France-Presse First Posted 16:57:00 10/15/2008 PREAH VIHEAR -- Fighting erupted on Wednesday on the Thai-Cambodia border, military officials from both sides said, as a row over a disputed patch of land near the ancient Preah Vihear temple boiled over. Cambodian Brigadier Bun Thean said the two sides had exchanged gunfire, after reports that 500 Thai soldiers were massing on their side of the border.

10-15-08 Two dead in fighting on Thai-Cambodia border

Wed Oct 15, 10:25 AM PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia (AFP) - Thailand and Cambodia exchanged fire on the border on Wednesday in a clash over disputed land which left two soldiers dead and several wounded, officials said.

Cambodian Government gives land to soldier guards Preah Vihear

8/26/2008 U.S. provides $34 mil for health and education in Cambodia

PHNOM PENH � The United States on Monday provided Cambodia with $34.3 million to support health and education, bringing its aid for Cambodia�s health and education programs since 2002 to nearly $200 million. Hor Namhong, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation, and Erin Soto, USAID mission director, signed aid do*****ents in a ceremony in Phnom Penh on Monday with Prime Minister Hun Sen in attendance.

8/25/2008 US to fund Khmer Rouge trial

THE United States will give its first donation to Cambodia's cash-strapped Khmer Rouge genocide trial as soon as the UN-backed court resolves corruption allegations, the US ambassador said today. The tribunal faces a funding shortfall of more than $US40 million ($46.1 million). Officials travelled to New York in June to petition UN members for more funds.

8/23/2008 Kuwait loans Cambodia over 500 million dollars for food crops

PHNOM PENH, Aug 22, 2008 (AFP) - Oil-rich Kuwait has granted Cambodia a 546-million dollar loan to grow crops and develop its agricultural sector, an official said Friday. Kuwaiti officials and Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong agreed to the deal during a meeting late Thursday, said foreign ministry spokesman Sin Bunthoeun. The loan will allow Cambodia "to invest in the agricultural sector so we will have crops to sell to Kuwait," Sin Bunthoeun said.

8/18/08 Thai, Cambodian FMs meet again for border dispute

Xinhua, China - 8/18/2008 4 hours ago Thai, Cambodian FMs meet again for border dispute www.chinaview.cn 2008-08-18 22:02:34 Print CHA-AM (PHETCHBURI), Thailand, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Foreign Ministers from Thailand and Cambodia met Monday at a central Thai resort for a second-round ministerial talks on a border dispute. Thai Foreign Minister Tej Bunnag greeted his Cambodian counterpart Hor Namhong and the two had a diner together Monday evening at a hotel in Cha-am district, Phetchburi province in central Thailand, some 220 kilometers southwest Bangkok, near the beach resort town Hua Hin. The meeting was to start officially on Tuesday morning here, ina bid to find a peaceful solution to a long border dispute regarding areas around the ancient Khmer-style Hindu temple of Preah Vihear, the 11th-century ruins listed recently as World Heritage, and to lay down foundations for future cooperation on demarcation and demining work along a 4.6-sq kilometers disputed border area. Only about ten soldiers from each side remain at a pagoda near the Preah Vihear temple now after the pull-out since Saturday, and some 20 others from each ...

8/13/2008 - Cambodians Barred From Ta Moan Thom

By Reporters, VOA Khmer Original reports from Cambodia and Washington 13 August 2008 Thai soldiers continued to bar Cambodians from entering Ta Moan temple Wednesday, declining to take down two wire barricades they had earlier planned to remove, a military official said. Thai soldiers occupied the temple, in a complex on the border of Oddar Meanchey province, last week, as a continued standoff over Preah Vihear temple went unresolved.