The recent dispute was triggered in May after armed forces of Thailand and Cambodia briefly fired at each other in a relatively small “no man’s land” area along their border that both countries claim as their own.

With nationalistic sentiment now mobilized in both countries, tensions will likely get worse before they get better.

By bno - Chiang Mai Office Tensions between Cambodia and Thailand have sharply intensified in recent weeks following an armed skirmish that left one Cambodian soldier dead in late May, triggering a cascade of retaliatory measures and nationalist mobilisation on both sides AP reports.