Full story (well worth a read): https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/ ... 4zlqg.htmlChinese money has made properties in the seaside village of Sihanoukville as expensive as Byron Bay. But now, crowded out by casinos and resorts, the locals are pushing back – literally.
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When several Chinese men dragged two Cambodian massage parlour workers out of a bar and forced them into a taxi, Som Neang says he couldn’t stand by and let them be kidnapped.
“Help me! The Chinese are taking me away! I don’t want to go!” one of the women was screaming.
Neang and other Cambodian motorcycle taxi drivers nearby demanded the women be released.
“The Chinese became angry and started attacking us,” Neang says. They were soon joined by others.
“There were more than 100 of them in the end, some with metal bars,” he says. “Many Cambodians joined in the fight, but some of us were beaten badly … when police arrived they fired shots into the air but the Chinese were not scared and kept fighting.”
Sihanoukville, once a sleepy coastal hamlet popular with backpackers, has been progressively populated by Chinese workers, developers, casinos and investors. It’s being touted by developers as the first port of call on Beijing’s $US1-trillion Belt and Road Initiative and some are saying that this little tourist town, carved out of jungle in the 1960s, will be the next Macau.
The city houses a deep-water port and a joint-country special economic zone which accommodates 121 mostly Chinese companies producing textiles, garments, machinery and electronics.
he 11-square-kilometre economic zone is being upgraded to accommodate 300 companies providing jobs for up to 100,000 workers, and a four-lane highway is proposed to link Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh, 220 kilometres to the north.
Connecting Sihanoukville to the BRI’s vast global network of rail, roads, ports, pipelines, fibre-optic cable and diplomacy is part of a radical change sweeping Cambodia.
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We asked a Ministry of Land official we met in the park why approval had been given for so many Chinese-owned and built projects.
“The government gave the Europeans and Americans 15 years to develop here and all they brought was backpackers and marijuana,” he replied.
“The government gave the Europeans and Americans 15 years to develop here and all they brought was backpackers and marijuana,” he replied.
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100 Chinese fighting motos and tuktuk drivers with metal bars over a couple of prozzies in the busiest areas of the city and not one video of the event?
C'mon.
C'mon.
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
This is old news. The Chinese only beat up, murder and kidnap their own folk.
Don’t believe it’ll be the next anything.
ETA. It’s just regurgitate hyperbole. Apparently there’s burger vans on the beach and westerners don’t feel welcome in casinos? Eh!
Some truth but a lot of bollocks.
Don’t believe it’ll be the next anything.
ETA. It’s just regurgitate hyperbole. Apparently there’s burger vans on the beach and westerners don’t feel welcome in casinos? Eh!
Some truth but a lot of bollocks.
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The place is definitely abit shit now though. Completely souless. Can't we go back to the good ole backpacker and marijuana days?
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It certainly paints a grim picture.
But interesting that YTP sees it as a bit exaggerated
But interesting that YTP sees it as a bit exaggerated
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$$$ ?ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote: But interesting that YTP sees it as a bit exaggerated
"I don't care what the people are thinking, i ain't drunk i'm just drinking"
It’s a media article. Of course it’s exaggerated.ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote:It certainly paints a grim picture.
But interesting that YTP sees it as a bit exaggerated
I find it funny that westerners are complaining about non local Asians in an Asian country though.
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I get paid to subvert the truth or maybe I stand to gain financially by the invasion?spitthedog wrote:$$$ ?ផោមក្លិនស្អុយ wrote: But interesting that YTP sees it as a bit exaggerated
If it’s the latter surely I would be applauding our new overlords?
I don’t own anything of value in Cambodia. (97 Honda CRV doesn’t count!)
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Yeah, I read the rest of the article waiting for them to return to the action storyali baba wrote:What's with the made up action sequence at the beginning? It doesn't even fit the tone of the rest of the article. Ignoring that I'd say it's a decent summary of developments.
Mate just paid $3000 per sq in Byron Bay just off Shirley Street. Amazeballs plot.
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lol, i would love to see that. rich chinese dudes fighting guys with nothing to lose. i put my money on the guys with nothing to lose.spitthedog wrote:100 Chinese fighting motos and tuktuk drivers with metal bars over a couple of prozzies in the busiest areas of the city and not one video of the event?
C'mon.
As the person responsible for coining the term SHITSVILLE I feel I must now come up with a new moniker fur the southern cess pool to reflect is its new Chinese flavour.
I give you....
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Meh....fuck it.
It's still SHITSVILLE no matter who is taking over.
I give you....
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Meh....fuck it.
It's still SHITSVILLE no matter who is taking over.
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