Cambodia

Trung affirmed that Vietnam gives high priority to its traditional friendship and cooperation with Cambodia.

The Cambodian Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications recently announced the formal 2026 timeline following strategic agreements with international development partners.

as a neighbouring country and a fellow ASEAN member, Vietnam calls on Cambodia and Thailand to exercise the utmost restraint, refrain from the use of force, fully implement the ceasefire agreement, continue dialogue, and resolve their disagreements in a peaceful and satisfactory manner.

The PMs agreed that the two sides should strengthen coordination in maintaining security and order in border areas, and preventing cross-border crimes, smuggling, and illegal activities while accelerating the signing of the agreements on border gate management and on border management regulations.

PM Chinh emphasised that the Vietnam–Cambodia border is not only a territorial demarcation line but also a bridge for exchange, friendship, and cooperation, reflecting the spirit of close neighbourhood and the deep, enduring bonds between the two countries and their people.

The exemption allows a 14-day stay during the four-month pilot, without requiring any application or fees. The completion of an e-arrival card upon entry is still required. During the pilot period, Chinese tourists can enter Cambodia multiple times.

Based on recovered artefacts and eyewitness accounts, Search Team K91 under the Dong Thap provincial Military Command believed that the remains belong to five Vietnamese martyrs who died in 1972-1973. Their identities have not yet been confirmed.

Tay Ninh holds a strategic position along the East–West Economic Corridor, acting as a key gateway linking Cambodia with ASEAN. With nearly 369 km of shared border, an extensive network of border gates and a robust system of industrial zones, the province has sustained GRDP growth of 9.52%—the highest in Việt Nam’s southeast—and attracted over 1,952 FDI projects worth 24.5 billion USD.

Deputy Prime Minister Bui Thanh Son held meetings with Cambodian Party and Government leaders on November 28 to further consolidate and strengthen the fine neighbourliness, traditional friendship, comprehensive cooperation, and long-term sustainability between the two countries.

The two sides issued a joint press communiqué affirming their candid exchange of views and shared determination to preserve and advance relations and cooperation between the border provinces of Vietnam and Cambodia

Both sides discussed strengthening communication and ideological education in the current context, including political training for officials, combating hostile narratives that threaten national solidarity, and guiding public opinion to maintain confidence in each Party and State’s policies.

During the 2024–2025 dry season, Team K52 found and sent home remains of 23 Vietnamese martyrs, lifting the total repatriated over the past 24 years to 1,512.

The year 2025 has seen robust progress in bilateral defence cooperation, reflected through delegation exchanges, training and capacity-building activities, joint rescue and disaster response drills, and trilateral exchanges among Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia, which holds the ASEAN chairmanship this year, held telephone conversations with his Cambodian and Thai counterparts, Hun Manet and Anutin Charnvirakul, to discuss recent developments along the two countries’ border.

Vietnam and Cambodia vowed to continue their close coordination in border management and protection on land and at sea, intensifying information exchange, conducting joint patrols, safeguarding border markers, and combating transnational crimes. They agreed to contribute to land demarcation and marker planting work.

Young officers from the Vietnam Border Guard and the Cambodian Army and Gendarmerie held a dialogue themed “Fostering Tradition, Building the Future” on November 12 in the southern province of Tay Ninh.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on the same day affirmed that Malaysia would serve solely as a coordinator in the peace talks between Thailand and Cambodia, without imposing any conditions, in order to ensure the negotiations proceed smoothly.

The programme aimed to deepen friendship, solidarity and mutual understanding among young officers of the two nations, while highlighting their role in public outreach and contributing to building a border of peace, cooperation and development.

The Thai Government views the landmine blast that injured Thai soldiers as a setback to efforts aimed at reducing tensions, and the scheduled release of Cambodian prisoners of war on November 12 will also be suspended.

The meeting followed the Cambodia-Thailand Joint Coordinating Task Force’s decision and was conducted under the observation of the ASEAN Observer Team, which was tasked with monitoring and verifying the process.