Chinese investment: Restoring Sihanouk vile

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As the hot streak went bust on the city’s eager foreign investors, it’s now the local residents – and the workers hanging desperate banners from empty buildings – who are left to deal with the consequences. Now, the challenge is on to put the pieces of the crumbling city back together, both to ease local pain and to save face for the upcoming ASEAN Summit, set to be held in the city in late 2022.

Now, he says the zone boasts some 165 businesses employing 25,000 Cambodian workers – some of which are newly hired from the roughly 8,000 people laid off from the city’s casinos and hotels.

This article was written by ANDREW HAFFNER with additional reporting from MOLLY BODURTHA

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