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Visiting Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam will be a memorable experience. To extract the most from such a trip, it’s wise to work out the optimum itinerary before you buy anything.
Thailand was in conflict with Vietnam because of Thai opposition to Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia. Border raids were launched between both nations, damaged much of Cambodia, and further soured relations. Hostility between Thailand and Vietnam ended in 1989, when Vietnamese forces withdrew from Cambodia.
After the fall of the Khmer Rouge and the conflict with Vietnam, Cambodia's economic situation was disastrous, with the plundering of the country's resources by Vietnamese troops only making matters worse. During the first six months of 1979, approximately 80,000 people fled from Cambodia to reach Thailand.
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17 May: Thai soldiers drove intruding Vietnamese soldiers back into Cambodia in intense fighting along Thailand's southeastern border. After more than a week of fighting, Thai rangers and marines seized part of a Vietnamese-occupied hill just inside the Thai border the previous days. [71]
[2] [3] [4] Relations were often tense, with Vietnam frequently invading Cambodian lands; in 1857 a joint Siamese-Vietnamese protectorate was established over Cambodia. [4] From the 1860s France began establishing a presence in the region, initially in modern Cambodia and Vietnam , and the colony of French Indochina was created in 1887, also ...
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