Thai, Cambodian military forces meet

Thai Vice Adm. Pongsak Pooriroj and Cambodian Adm. Kaew Samual agree to cooperate on economics and border stability.

 

Friday, 15 June 2012
By Patcharapol Panrak
Pattaya Mail

Thai military officials responsible for the Trat and Chantaburi border met with their Cambodian counterparts in Pattaya to work out further measures on economic cooperation and border stability.

The periodic Regional Border Commission meeting, held June 1 at the Ambassador City Hotel, covered routine agenda items related to border operations, economic cooperation, social issues, health care and the environment.

Thai Vice Adm. Pongsak Pooriroj, responsible for Trat and Chantaburi Defense, and Adm. Kaew Samual of Cambodia’s Region 3 command, announced no new major agreements or initiatives at the session also attended by Trat Permanent Secretary Wirat Rattanavijit.

Thai, Cambodian border trade robust after rules relaxed

2007/11/02
TNA (Thailand)

Thai-Cambodian border trade is brisk again after stagnating when Cambodian authorities limited the transport of agricultural produce via Thai farm trucks.

Cambodia has now again allowed Thai farmers vehicles to cross the border to transport agricultural products after banning this country's farm trucks from travelling more than 500 metres into its territory from border crossings at Thailand's Chanthaburi and Sa Kaeo provinces from August to October, according to the head of a a border trade operators association in Chanthaburi's Soidao district.

Cambodia claimed that because Thai vehicles are run by right-side steering wheels, it was unsafe for Thai drivers to operate Thai vehicles inside the neighbouring country.

However, the order was revoked by the governor of Battambang on October 30.

Relaxation of the stringent rule makes border trade robust and lucrative again, after trade had stagnated during the past two months.

The ruling was cancelled because it also affected Cambodian farmers and they suffered lossed of unsold farm produce because there were no Thai trucks to carry their products in Cambodia.

Thailand is their most important agriculture market.

However, Cambodia will increase the per-vehicle charge for allowing Thai trucks to enter more than 500 metres into its territory.