O Smach

O Smach is a small Cambodian town on the Thai border in Samraong Municipality of Oddar Meanchey Province, situated north of the city of Samraong. Until 1999, there were intermittent battles, and the area was unsafe as the last remaining Khmer Rouge still had control of nearby Anlong Veng. In 2003, an international border crossing was opened between O Smach and the adjacent town of Chong Chom in Thailand's Surin Province. There has since opened a strip of casinos between the Cambodian and Thai pa