Thai PM apologises over leaked call with Hun Sen as crisis threatens to topple government

<p>In the phone call, Thai prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra discusses a border dispute with former Cambodian leader and calls him ‘uncle’</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/thailand">Thailand’</a>s prime minister, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/16/paetongtarn-shinawatra-thailand-pm-replacement-voting-thaksin-shinawatra">Paetongtarn Shinawatra</a>, apologised on Thursday for a leaked phone call with former <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/cambodia">Cambodian </a>leader Hun Sen that provoked widespread anger and threatened to break up her ruling coalition.</p><p>As pressure grew on Thursday, Paetongtarn apologised at a news conference alongside military chiefs and senior figures from her Pheu Thai party.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/20/thai-prime-minister-paetongtarn-shinawatra-apologises-phone-leak-crisis-cambodia-hun-sen">Continue reading...</a>