1 - Cambodia Temple Tensions Thai and Cambodian troops are facing off over the 11th century Preah Vihear temple on the countries' shared border. The feud follows the temple's designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site in early July. Thailand says the map used in Cambodia's UNESCO application improperly places some 1.8 sq. mi. (4.7 sq km) of land near the temple in Cambodian territory. (Cambodia legally owns the temple itself.) Opposition leaders are using the issue to pressure Thailand's embattled government, which initially endorsed the application, and the Foreign Minister has resigned as a result. Cambodia, calling the situation an "imminent state of war," has asked the

NOT long after Foreign Minister George Yeo called Cambodia’s move to take its quarrel with Thailand over a disputed border area to the United Nations as “premature”, a report said that the two neighbours had decided to give bilateral talks another chance before turning to the world body.
on Monday. Cambodian Information Minister Khieu Kanharith also confirmed that his country would “postpone the complaint to the Security Council.”
ewardship will suffer given the “domestic political difficulties” in Thailand, Mr Yeo reiterated the point that Thailand’s ability to remain independent when the rest of South-east Asia was colonialised reflected a strong and established foreign ministry with a “professional core of officers”.

SINGAPORE (AFP) - Cambodia is hoping the UN Security Council can help resolve a military standoff with Thailand after talks during a meeting of regional foreign ministers made no progress, the head of Cambodia's delegation said Wednesday.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations held crisis talks Tuesday on the border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, but failed to defuse the row, diplomats said.
t early this month awarded World Heritage status to the Preah Vihear temple, considered the finest example of ancient Khmer architecture after the famous Angkor Wat complex.

By Wong Mei Ling It was a free-for-all at the Shangri-La lobby yesterday, as members of the media clashed with security officers and police.

BANGKOK, July 24 (Xinhua) - Thailand and its neighbor Cambodia have agreed to hold a ministerial meeting on next Monday over the disputed border areas adjacent to the Preah Vihear temple, and Cambodia would withdraw its petition filed earlier with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to ask for mediation, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said on Thursday.
Samak and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen had a telephone conversation Thursday afternoon, in which the Cambodian Prime Minister told Samak that Cambodia would withdraw its request for the UNSC to convene an urgent meeting to discuss the Thai-Cambodian dispute.
agreed during the General Border Committee (GBC) on Monday.

By Ek Madra PHNOM PENH, July 24 (Reuters) - Cambodia and Thailand will hold more talks on Monday aimed at resolving a smouldering border dispute over a 900-year-old temple, officials said on Thursday after their two leaders spoke on the phone.
Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej told reporters in Bangkok that his Cambodian counterpart, Hun Sen, had agreed to withdraw a complaint to U.N. Security Council, but Cambodian officials denied this.
will hold Monday's negotiations in the Cambodian tourist town of Siem Reap, home of the famed Angkor Wat temples.

SINGAPORE (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday called for a peaceful resolution to a dangerous border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia as Asia's main security talks were held here.
Foreign ministers from the region and key world powers gathered in Singapore for the ASEAN Regional Forum after an unprecedented meeting here Wednesday between Rice and her North Korean counterpart.
ng that has been a subject of discussion. We are concerned about it and there needs to be a way to resolve it peacefully," she told reporters ahead of the forum.

By Ek Madra PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia accused Thailand on Thursday of sending more troops to their joint border as a smoldering dispute over a

By Seth Mydans BANGKOK: Calling a border confrontation with Thailand "an imminent state of war," Cambodia asked the United Nations and its Southeast Asian

PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia asked the UN Security Council and its Southeast Asian neighbors Tuesday to intervene in resolving a military standoff