International relations

Bilateral relations between Thailand and Vietnam have come to a peak recently, opening a new chapter to bring mutual benefit, but rival sentiments may cause negative impacts, panellists said on 12 July. Speaking at a seminar on “Enhancing Vietnam-Thailand Relations for Common Prosperity, Sustainable Development and ...

Thailand and Burma have agreed to renew negotiations over disputed border demarcations, which had stalled under Burma’s previous government. The agreement was reached during State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s recent visit to Thailand, according to Burma’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Observers say that Thailand wants to ...

The Thai government has sacked six officials in the town that State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visited last week. On the day Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visited Mahachai’s seafood market, Myanmar migrant workers accused local authorities of manipulating the arrangement so that only ...

Laos and Cambodia have agreed to continue to strengthen cooperation and to develop land links to enhance trade and investment between the two nations. The plans arose from a meeting between Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen when Mr Thongloun visited Cambodia ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on 20 June slammed reports that Cambodia had succumbed to pressure from China and helped kill a strongly worded ASEAN statement on the South China Sea dispute, even as he parroted Beijing’s pre-emptive dismissal of an upcoming Hague ruling on the issue. ASEAN ...

Cambodia helped to scupper an ASEAN joint statement on the South China Sea last week, according to news reports, an echo of the success it had killing a similar statement when it was chair of the regional bloc four years ago. The Foreign Affairs Ministry issued its ...

At the invitation of His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, H. E. Mr. Tran Dai Quang, President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , and Madame Nguyen Thi Hien led a high – level Vietnamese delegation to pay a ...

Vietnam and Cambodia have agreed to continue their mutual support and close collaboration in order to strengthen the “good neighbourliness, traditional friendship and comprehensive, sustainable and long-term cooperation” between the two countries, thus bringing pragmatic interests to their people. President Tran Dai Quang noted his hope ...

The Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism of Laos and China’s National Tourism Administration will sign a memorandum of understanding on ‘Development of Quality Standards for Tourist Attractions’ in the near future to boost bilateral tourism cooperation between the two countries. These fairs offer many countries ...

Mr. Thongsing was summarising the government’s performance under his leadership over the past five years from 2011-2015 at the inaugural session of the NA’s 8th Legislature, which opened on 20 April. He told the session that the government had placed great importance on the development of ...