KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Bernama) — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim\u2019s successful mediation of an \u201cimmediate and unconditional ceasefire\u201d between Thailand and Cambodia has drawn international praise and put Malaysia in the global spotlight for the right reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The peace deal, brokered in Putrajaya after five days of escalation, was prominently reported by major global media outlets including the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and international news wires Reuters, Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s headline read: \u201cThailand, Cambodia agree to \u2018immediate, unconditional\u2019 ceasefire: Malaysia\u201d<\/em>, noting that \u201cMalaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim says truce between the Southeast Asian neighbours to begin at 17:00 GMT.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The BBC similarly reported: \u201cThailand and Cambodia agree to ‘immediate ceasefire\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the involvement of global powers such as the United States (US) and China, Malaysia\u2019s role as current ASEAN Chair proved crucial in preventing a broader humanitarian crisis stemming from the century-long border conflict, which had already claimed over 30 lives and displaced more than 300,000 people within just five days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anwar\u2019s success in bringing both Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Thailand\u2019s Acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai to the negotiation table has been widely applauded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even the US acknowledged Malaysia\u2019s leadership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe are grateful to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim for his leadership and for hosting the ceasefire talks,\u201d US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was quoted as saying in a statement issued by the State Department on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not the first time Malaysia has played a significant role in mediating regional conflicts. The country has long earned trust as a neutral peace broker, having previously contributed to peace efforts in Aceh, southern Thailand and the southern Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The latest Thai-Cambodian conflict began with a brief skirmish on May 28 and escalated into full-scale fighting by July 24. The two neighbours have long disputed an 817-kilometre undemarcated stretch of their shared border for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n — BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Bernama) — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim\u2019s successful mediation of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia.png",810,444,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia-300x164.png",300,164,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia-768x421.png",640,351,true],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia.png",640,351,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia.png",810,444,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia.png",810,444,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia.png",810,444,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia.png",810,444,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/anwar-thai-cambodia-720x444.png",720,444,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"Asia<\/a>","tag_info":"Asia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17547,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17545\/revisions\/17547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}