Plastic bags stuffed with rotting chicken from a smugglers’ boat washed ashore in Thailand have hinted at shortages inside Cambodia, as formal trade between the neighbours has collapsed amid their border conflict and illicit cargo flows surge instead.While demand appears high for smuggled Thai oil, fruit, meat and consumer items like soap, the Cambodian public is maintaining a boycott of Thai businesses in a nationalist backlash that reveals the depth of the enmity now staining relations between the neighbours and erstwhile trading partners.The two countries blame each other for reviving a dormant dispute last year over where their 800km (500-mile) border lies. Bloody clashes that erupted in July killed scores of soldiers and civilians on both sides, resulting in the land border being closed to goods and people.A fragile ceasefire has just about held but the land border remains shut despite recent overtures from Cambodia to reopen it.Thai officers trudged through the mangrove forest in the Hat Lek area of Trat and found dozens of plastic bags containing rotten chicken stuck among the tree roots. Photo: NBTWith both nations pinched by the global fuel crisis, Thai authorities say sea smuggling, including of fuel, has spiked, prompting more naval patrols.