Oliver Conway

But hostilities between the two Asian neighbours resumed this week, and the US president said on Tuesday night he would have to get involved again.

Well, the Malaysian Prime Minister said he had spoken to the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia on Tuesday and both were willing to, quote, continue negotiations to ease tensions.

The clashes, which erupted over a long-standing border dispute, have forced half a million people to flee.

Our Southeast Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, is in a village on the Thai side of the frontier.

There's been a pretty comprehensive evacuation right along the border now.

I've come to within three kilometers of it.

This is, I suppose, a pretty risky place to be because yesterday the Cambodians fired thousands of rockets over the border.

The house I'm standing in front of was hit by one.

You can see where it's detonated and just shredded everything in the front of the house.

Fortunately, nobody was living here.

And that's the case for hundreds of kilometers along this border.

These populations have been moved to somewhere they can be safe.

That means more than 20 kilometers.

That's the range of the rockets that Cambodia has been using.

Meanwhile, from where I am, but pretty much anywhere you stop, you can hear the regular boom of outgoing Thai artillery.

And we know the Thai military has announced yet more airstrikes.

So the war is continuing very much at the same level that it has for the last three days.

And you're not hearing

really much in the way of softened language from either side.

And the Thai military really is running this show.