Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet met on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Cebu, Philippines, and agreed to rebuild trust, normalize relations and pursue peace after deadly border clashes in 2025, Bloomberg reported on May 7.

As ASEAN's 2026 chair, the Philippines pushed the meeting as part of a broader effort to demonstrate regional crisis management capacity during a summit already focused on an energy crisis and the civil war in Myanmar. The talks come after Thailand scrapped a longstanding joint offshore energy exploration agreement with Cambodia on May 5 and is considering canceling a land border demarcation agreement. Fighting in 2025 killed around 150 people, displaced around 300,000 others and led to downgraded diplomatic ties.