Visitors rest at the top of the stairs at Wat Saket Buddhist temple in Bangkok on July 8, 2025. Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has expressed deep concern over intensifying clashes between Thai and Cambodian forces, warning Australians to avoid volatile border regions as violence escalates.
Fighting has erupted in a long-disputed border zone, leaving at least a dozen Thai nationals dead, most of them civilians, and prompting a full closure of Thailand’s border with Cambodia.
