Experts say Prime Minister Hun Manet bowing to opposition pressure casts doubt on his government's commitment to regional cooperation Cambodia's abrupt withdrawal from a development pact with Vietnam and Laos threatens to sour its diplomatic standing and isolate the country amid growing geopolitical tensions in the region,

Prime Minister Hun Manet has announced that Cambodians now enjoy national unity and that opposition groups have lost all leverage against the government following Cambodia's September 20 withdrawal from the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA).

Phnom Penh’s withdrawal from the CLV Triangle Development Area pact marks a potentially important shift in Cambodia-Vietnam relations.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said he was pulling his country out of a development agreement with neighboring Vietnam and Laos following protests that it was benefiting foreign interests. Critics on social media have focused on land concessions in border areas particularly with Vietnam,

Cambodian People’s Party chairman Hun Sen has announced the country’s withdrawal from the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area (CLV-DTA), a trilateral arrangement that he himself initiated in 1999.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said he was pulling his country out of a development agreement with neighbouring Vietnam and Laos following protests that it was benefiting foreign interests. Critics on social media have focused on land concessions in border areas particularly with Vietnam,