Thailand Imposes Coastal Curfew Amid Escalating Border Clashes with Cambodia

Thailand introduced a curfew in its southeastern Trat Province on Sunday (December 14, 2025) as combating with Cambodia unfold to coastal areas of a disputed border area, two days after U.S. President and would-be peacemaker Donald Trump mentioned the edges had agreed to cease.

The Southeast Asian neighbours have resorted to arms a number of occasions this yr since a Cambodian soldier was killed in a Might skirmish, reigniting a battle that has displaced tons of of hundreds of individuals on each side of the border.

“General, there have been clashes repeatedly” since Cambodia once more reiterated its openness to a ceasefire on Saturday (December 13), Thai Defence Ministry spokesman Rear Admiral Surasant Kongsiri advised a press convention in Bangkok after saying the curfew.

Thailand is open to a diplomatic resolution however “Cambodia has to stop hostility first earlier than we will negotiate,” he mentioned.

Thai forces on Saturday (December 13) mentioned they’d destroyed a bridge that Cambodia used to ship heavy weapons and different gear to the area and launched an operation concentrating on pre-positioned artillery in Cambodia’s coastal Koh Kong Province.

Cambodia accused Thailand of putting civilian infrastructure.

Thailand’s curfew covers 5 districts of Trat Province that neighbour Koh Kong, excluding the vacationer islands of Koh Chang and Koh Kood. The army had beforehand imposed a curfew within the japanese Sakeo Province, which stays in drive.

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Thailand and Cambodia have exchanged heavy-weapons hearth at a number of factors alongside their 817 kilometre (508 mile) border since Monday (December 8), in among the most intense combating since a five-day conflict in July that ended with Mr. Trump and Malaysian mediation.

Mr. Trump mentioned he spoke to Thailand’s caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian premier Hun Manet on Friday (December 12), and mentioned they’d agreed to “stop all capturing”.

On Saturday (December 13), Mr. Anutin vowed to maintain combating “till we really feel no extra hurt and threats to our land and folks”.

A White Home spokesperson later mentioned Mr. Trump anticipated all events to honour commitments and that “he’ll maintain anybody accountable as essential to cease the killing and guarantee sturdy peace”.