POIPET, Cambodia: A railway reconnecting Cambodia and Thailand was officially inaugurated on Monday in a bid to slash travel times and boost trade between the southeast Asian neighbours.
Hun Sen described their journey as"historic" and thanked Thailand for its efforts"to reconnect the railway between Cambodia and Thailand". Cambodia last year re-opened the final stretch of a 370 km railway running from the capital, Phnom Penh, to the Thai border.Much of Cambodia's railways - built by the French in colonial times - were damaged by the years of bitter conflict that engulfed the country during the Cold War era.
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