Vietnam-Cambodia border dispute

Vietnam-Cambodia border dispute

PHNOM PENH (AP): A Cambodian student group urged Vietnam on Tuesday to help reduce the number of Vietnamese illegal immigrants.

A letter from the Democratic Front of Khmer Students and Intellectuals also drew attention to unresolved border disputes and called, without elaboration, for Vietnam to withdraw intelligence agents operating in Cambodia.

Several members of the group went to the Vietnamese Embassy to deliver the letter, but no diplomat came out to receive them.

Anti-Vietnamese feeling is widespread among Cambodians, who hold a traditional distrust of their much larger neighbor to the east, popularly believed to covet Cambodian territory.

The sentiment was fueled by Vietnam's military occupation of Cambodia from 1979-89.