Trade at major Thailand-Cambodia border towns is sluggish as a result of the Preah Vihear Temple dispute.

At Rong Klue market at the Aranyaprathet border checkpoint in Sa Kaew there are only a few hundred shoppers, compared with tens of thousands before the dispute just a few weeks ago.

Most Cambodian-owned shops are closed and just a few of the Thai owned ones are open to serve a paltry numbers of customers.

A border resident says Cambodians have stopped buying Thailand-made goods because of reports that Phnom Penh will announce a boycott on these things.

Meanwhile, Army Rangers maintain border patrols as the United Nations security council gets ready to discuss the dispute as an emergency issue today.