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Cambodia Condemns Thai Military Attack on Preah Vihear Temple | Cambodia Confirms Troops Still Holding Mount Trop as Thailand Cannot Raise Flag on Sovereign Territory | Cambodia and Thailand Clashes Enter Third Day as Casualties Rise to 33 | UN Security Council Urges Restraint as Thailand-Cambodia Clashes Intensify | Cambodia Condemns Thai Aggression at UN, Calls for Ceasefire and International Intervention | Techo Hun Sen Advises Military Strategy Amidst Border Clashes with Thailand | 45 Staff Rescued After Being Trapped at Preah Vihear Temple Amidst Clashes | BREAKING: Cambodia Denies Firing Projectiles into Laos, Accuses Thailand of Disinformation | Cambodia's Tourism Ministry Seeks Aid for Troops, Refugees; Reaffirms Commitment to Peace | BREAKING: Laos Denies Border Clash with Cambodia; Cambodia Rejects Thai Accusations of Shelling Laos | BREAKING NEWS: Andrew MacGregor Marshall Claims Queen Mother Sirikit Has Died, Alleging Concealment by Thai Authorities | TOP NEWS: Trump Claims Diplomatic Role in Cambodia-Thailand Border Conflict, Calls for Ceasefire | TOP NEWS: Cambodian Prime Minister Confirms President Donald Trump Ceasefire Agreement with Thailand | Thai Military of Escalating Attacks, Despite Cambodia Ceasefire Efforts | BREAKING NEWS: Cambodia and Thailand Agree to Malaysian Mediation Amid Escalating Border Clashes | Ministry of Education Announces Postponement of 2025 Baccalaureate Examination | Cambodian Community in Korea Holds Mass Protest Against Thailand’s Invasion | Techo Hun Sen: “In Times of National Crisis, We Have No Right to Rest or Fall Ill” | UN Secretary-General and Cambodian Officials Call for Immediate Ceasefire Amid Border Clashes | Lieutenant General Duong Samnieng Dies Fighting Thai Invaders at Preah Vihear | BREAKING NEWS: Prime Minister Hun Manet to Lead Cambodian Delegation to Kuala Lumpur for Special Meeting on Ceasefire | Secretary Rubio Calls for Immediate De-escalation in Cambodia-Thailand Border Dispute | TOP NEWS: Cambodia and Thailand Agree to Ceasefire After Malaysia-Mediated Talks | Joint Press Release: Special Meeting Hosted by Malaysia to Address Cambodia-Thailand Border Dispute | ASEAN Issues Statement Supporting Ceasefire and Peaceful Resolution in Cambodia-Thailand Border Dispute | BREAKING: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Welcomes Cambodia-Thailand Ceasefire Declaration | TOP NEWS: President Trump Announces Ceasefire and Peace Agreements with Thailand and Cambodia | Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet Reports Successful Ceasefire Negotiation with Thailand, Thanks U.S. Support |

Seized Oil Tanker Operators Seek UN’s Help to Free Crew

INTERNATIONAL: The operators of the oil tanker, MT Strovolos, have approached the UN Human Right’s Commission for help in freeing their crew, who have been detained by the Indonesian Navy. The ship was intercepted late last month after fleeing Cambodian waters when the Singapore-based company it had been hired by went bankrupt. The ship is carrying an estimated 290,000 barrels of Cambodian crude that KrisEnergy says belongs to its creditors. Cambodia says the oil has been stolen.

The Bahamian-flagged Strovolos was seized on 27 July near the island of Sumatra, just days after Interpol issued a so-called “red statement” at the request of Cambodian authorities. The oil tanker slipped out of the kingdom’s territorial waters in the Gulf of Thailand just days after KrisEnergy filed for bankruptcy in June. It first headed to Thailand for refuelling and then headed to Indonesia.

The ship’s operators, World Tankers Management, have released a statement denying that they had loaded barrels of crude illegally or that they have anchored in Indonesian waters illegally. The statement says, “We also wish to highlight the impact on humanitarian issues of the approach taken by Cambodian and Indonesian authorities, where wrongful allegations made against the crew have resulted in refusals to enable a lawful crew change. The charterer’s (KrisEnergy’s) default meant that we and the crew had no realistic choice but to sail the vessel to the nearest appropriate port, Map Ta Phut in Thailand, to refuel for the safety of the crew, ship and the cargo. While the vessel was there, we tried to undertake a crew change as many of the crew had remained on board since September 2020 and were required to sign off and return home to their families. But the charter was terminated and the vessel was withdrawn from its chartered service.”

WTM stresses that the vessel’s 19 crew have been subject to unfair and unreasonable interference by Indonesian investigators, causing “immense distress and suffering”. WTM says it is aware that Cambodian authorities have made an application to Interpol for the crew to be extradited to Cambodia. The kingdom’s Director General of the General Department of Petroleum in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Chiep Sour, says Indonesian authorities have been acting on a complaint made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with Interpol. He says Cambodia maintains that the ship’s cargo belongs to the state and that the ship had no right to act unilaterally when KrisEnergy filed for liquidation. At the time, Cambodia said the matter was in the hands of KrisEnergy’s court-appointed liquidators. The tanker was leased by the company for use in pumping Block A of the Apsara Oil Field in the Gulf of Thailand.



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