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Military conflict continues along Thai-Cambodian border



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This is about the last thing either country needs to be wasting their money on these days. Maybe someone from the UN wants to step in and help solve this border dispute?

Fighting continued for a sixth day between Thai and Cambodian troops on Wednesday in an area near three disputed 12th-century temples, as talks between the two sides appeared to collapse.

At least 14 people, including at least one civilian, have been killed in the cross-border artillery fire in the Dangrek mountains within the past week, and 50,000 have arrive at evacuation centres.

The latest fighting began at 5am, and was continuing more than four hours later - with heavy shelling near the Ta Moan and Ta Krabey temples, Cambodia's defence ministry said.

Thai defence minister Prawit Wongsuwon had been expected to meet his Cambodian counterpart, Tea Banh, in Phnom Penh on Wednesday - but reportedly pulled out of the trip because of alleged comments made on Cambodian TV.


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