{"id":37882,"date":"2025-12-18T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37882"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:26:33","slug":"cambodia-says-thai-military-bombs-poipet-casino-hub-on-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/cambodia-says-thai-military-bombs-poipet-casino-hub-on-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia says Thai military bombs Poipet casino hub on border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Cambodia&#8217;s defence ministry said Thailand&#8217;s military on Thursday bombed the casino hub of Poipet, a major land crossing between the two nations which are engaged in renewed clashes along their border.<\/p>\n<p>Thai forces &#8220;dropped 2 bombs in the area of Poipet Municipality, Banteay Meanchey Province&#8221; at around 11:00 am (0400 GMT) Thursday, the Cambodian defence ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand has not commented on the strike as of early Thursday afternoon.<br \/>\nThe renewed fighting between the Southeast Asian neighbours this month has killed at least 21 people in Thailand and 17 in Cambodia, while displacing around 800,000, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict stems from a territorial dispute over the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometre (500-mile) border and a smattering of ancient temple ruins situated on the frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Each side has blamed the other for instigating the fresh fighting, claiming self-defence and trading accusations of attacks on civilians.<br \/>\nCambodia&#8217;s interior ministry said Tuesday at least four casinos in the country were damaged by Thai strikes since the fighting began on December 7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia&#8217;s defence ministry said Thailand&#8217;s military on Thursday bombed the casino hub of Poipet, a major land crossing between the two nations which are engaged in renewed clashes along their border. Thai forces &#8220;dropped 2 bombs in the area of Poipet Municipality, Banteay Meanchey Province&#8221; at around 11:00 am (0400 GMT) Thursday, the Cambodian defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37884,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37882\/revisions\/37884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}