Thailand – Cambodia peace talks in doubt over venue row

Thailand on Tuesday rejected a request by Cambodia to hold bilateral talks in a neutral country, leaving a planned meeting to negotiate an end to deadly border clashes in doubt. The nations’ long-standing border conflict reignited this month, shattering an earlier truce, killing more than 40 people and displacing over 900,000 on both sides, officials said. Analysis by Astrid Norén-Nilsson, senior lecturer at Lund University’s centre for East and Sout-East Asian studies.