the Franco–Siamese Treaty of 1907

 Introduction The purpose of this article¹ is to investigate how Cambodia and Vietnam are trying to manage their various border disputes. The focus of attention is on the evolution since mid-1993, that is, after the creation of a new government in Cambodia following general elections organised by the United Nations. The land border dispute gained renewed attention in 1996 when Cambodia's First Prime Minister openly accused Vietnam of encroaching on Cambodian territory. The article seeks to identify the factors explaining the rationale for those accusations and the latest increase in tension between the two countries. The article is structured in a chronological way with events being displayed as they unfold. A background section traces the importance of the border disputes and the way in which they were managed in the period up to mid-1993. The main part of the study is devoted to the period after mid-1993. In the concluding section the efforts of the two countries to manage the bo...

 AUBARET AND THE TREATY OF JULY 15 1867 BETWEEN FRANCE AND SIAM LAWRENCE PALMER BRIGGS  Washington, D. C.  THE FRENCH IN ANNAM AND COCHIN CHINA, 1856-62 GIALONG (1802-20) owed his throne and the establishment of the Empire of Annam to the assistance of the French, particularly that of the missionary, Pierre Pigneau de Béhaine, Bishop of Adran. At this time the French undoubtedly could have had a protectorate over Annam for the asking, Gialong protected the French and Spanish missionaries during his reign and tried to give the French some trade advantages; but his successors, Ming Mang (1820-41), Thieu-Tri (1841-47), and Tuduc (1847-83), persecuted the missionaries and closed the country to European trade. In 1856, Charles de Montigny, a French diplomat, returning to his post in China, was ordered to make treaties of commerce with Siam and Annam and to secure the protection of the French missionaries in Annam. At Singapore, he received orders to stop at Cambodia, in respon...

THE TREATY OF MARCH 23, 1907 BETWEEN FRANCE AND SIAM AND THE RETURN OF BATTAMBANG AND ANGKOR TO CAMBODIA LAWRENCE PALMER BRIGGS Manton, Michigan TO HAVE a proper appreciation of the return of the territory of Bat tambang and Angkor to Cambodia as a consequence of the treaty of  March 23, 1907 between France and Siam, it is necessary to know some thing of the history of the ancient Khmer Empire or at least that of the  peoples of the Mékong and Ménam valleys since the appearance of the so  called Tai people in the middle Ménam in the eartly part of the twelfth cen tury. THE EXTENT OF THE ANCIENT KHMER EMPIRE The ancient Khmer Empire under its last great ruler, Jayavarman VII (1181 to probably about 1215 A.D.), included all the southern part of the  peninsula of Indo-China except the Malay portion. Since near the end of  the Chenla period, in the eighth century, the Tai state of Nan Chao (648- 1253) the present Yunnan had been, with slight interruptions, the north...