Cambodia’s PM Hun Manet announced that the decision would take effect from midnight on Sunday.
Cambodia has announced it will stop all fuel imports from its neighbour Thailand as relations have plunged to their lowest ebb in more than a decade after a Cambodian soldier was killed last month in a disputed area of the border.
Prime Minister Hun Manet announced the decision on Sunday, posting on social media that it would take effect from midnight.
Manet said energy companies would be able to “import sufficiently from other sources to meet domestic fuel and gas demands” in the country.
Separately, on Sunday, Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry urged its citizens not to travel to Thailand unnecessarily. Concurrently, Thailand’s consular affairs department warned Thais in Cambodia to avoid “protest areas”.
