The Thai military forces have continued to fire artillery shells at many locations in Cambodian territory from Monday midnight until Tuesday morning, said a Cambodian defense spokesperson on Tuesday (Dec 16).

Heavy combat between Thailand and Cambodia entered a second week on Monday, with Phnom Penh claiming that Thai bombing is hitting deeper into its territory, coming close to shelters for people who had already fled dangerous areas along the border.

Cambodia has been using foreign lobbyists to help conduct an information warfare campaign against Thailand to sway international public opinion, according to the government.

With the addition of Phnom Penh, Cambodia becomes the seventh country served by Turkish Airlines in Southeast Asia, while the city joins the carrier’s network as its 11th

Flights between Phnom Penh and Bangkok as well as those between Siem Reap and Thailand are operating as normal although the Cambodia

Fighting on the Thailand-Cambodia border continues to escalate as the Thai Navy launches a military operation in the Gulf of Thailand, while Cambodia orders the closure of all border crossings.

The stats alone are impressive. Opened only weeks ago, Techo International Airport might soon be the ninth-largest on earth. Designed by Foster + Partners, its serenely golden profile – a grid of tented vaults – rises like a desert mirage above the green paddy fields.

Cambodia has sustained strong growth for over three decades and is now one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economies, averaging 7 percent annual GDP growth in the two decades before the pandemic and serving as a strategic hub in ASEAN’s market of 650 million consumers.

Turkish Airlines operates flights to Phnom Penh three times a week, with the flights from Istanbul to Phnom Penh departing on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, while the return flights to Istanbul operate on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.

The two sides are battling over longstanding competing claims to patches of frontier land, some of which contain centuries-old temple ruins.

Thailand's military said on Monday that it has stopped fuel shipments passing through a border checkpoint with Laos because of fears they were being diverted to Cambodia, with which it is fighting a fierce border conflict.