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Asean's Rare Activism in Bringing Peace to Thailand and Cambodia

Anwar pulls off a deal without prejudicing a comprehensive political solution

Jul 31, 2025
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By: B A Hamzah
The usual hearty handshake

The peace deal brokered earlier this week between Thailand and Cambodia by Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as Chair of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations brings an immediate end – if it holds – to an affair that leaders of both sides exploited for their own purposes and for nationalist bo…

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