Modern Wars : Sihanoukville, a Chinese or Cambodian city?
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- čas přidán 29. 02. 2020
- Short documentary Judith and I shot in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, from May to August 2019.
Since the massive influx of Chinese investments, southern Cambodia has seen its region develop at an astounding speed.
This film follows the lives of three women that help us navigate through the different levels of daily fighting that surviving in Sihanoukville means.
Thank you for shedding light on this tiny corner of the world
4 examples of women u cant mess with. Very strong individuals.
😅🤣😂
This blew my mind. I live here and am good friends with all of these people.
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@@chrisdonegan2566 lmao .............troll for sure!!
I wish more CZcamsrs would provide interviews just like this in various SE Asia locations. Really good insight can be had for the prospective expat. Great video
Wish we could go all around SE Asia and make more docs like these :)
I’m glad I was there 20 years ago... was a favorite of mine, unforgettable memories etched indelibly forever. This country does that to everyone that visits I believe. Beautiful people , humble and true. Great video .. well done and thank you !
sometimes humble come from poor, true because of lack of education, it's just reality all over the world.
same as me pal. So sad.
This video is really really great. I hope you can make more documentaries like this .
It breaks my heart to see Sihanoukville like this. I remember 5 years ago when I used to visit the beach, it’s pretty peaceful. And I thought of coming back here when I grow up. But nah guess we can’t see what will happen in the future after all.
Yeah. You want them to live in Stone Age so you can enjoy your vacation. Good
@@lbchen6160 😐😐 sorry for being sad after seeing them pollute the environment of my country but okay.
So many people working for the CCP in these comments.
You can not justify the devastation Chinese investment has caused to Sihanoukville.
The Cambodian people have suffered greatly from this.
Why don't the United States and Europe come to invest in Cambodia? Well, France once occupied Cambodia, enslaved its people and plundered its wealth. In addition, the United States has bombed Cambodia for 14 months, and the United States has always liked to bomb other countries. CCP is much better than them. As long as you are not brainwashed, you can think independently to get such a conclusion.
@@willyoung2452 There is not much western investment because of Hun Sen’s record for human rights and lack of democracy in the Country. Hundreds of gambling dens filled with thousands of Triads will not change this.
@@willyoung2452CCP are no better than westerners. The worst part of Chinese investments is the Chinese coming over, Khmer folks should give the Chinese the same treatment the Thai did to them utter assimilation.
don't blame ccp for taking advantage, blame cambodian government which allows this!
Debt diplomacy another form of CCP imperialism.
Excellent documentary. Very much appreciated. Please keep up the good work.
Thank you for this doc. It breaks my heart to see my birth home change so drastically like this. There has always been tension between the three countries: China, Vietnam, and Cambodia but this is another level of corruption and evilness within the Government of Cambodia under the controls of Hun Sen. True FREEDOM comes from having your own land, growing your own food, having your own business, and being self sufficient as much as possible. Material wealth is NOT true wealth!
Don't forget Thai works in Cambodia.
@@traaotuong6107 What you mean Thai work in Cambodia..????
The question is..... Who is Controlling Cambodia....???????
Hun Sen or Ho Chi Minh.. ??????????
No. True freedom comes from decent living standards. Which development like these help with. Especially a poor country like Cambodia.
@@asdf3568 I disagree. It's all in perspective. I've lived in both, the States and now in a developing country and I am happier than ever because I am actually practicing what TRUE FREEDOM is to me.
What's more DECENT than the living standards that you can provide for yourself when you're able to obtain basic living needs like land, clean water, clean air??? But you sound like you'd rather trust the big corps to do it for you huh? They've done so much good when everything is based off of just profits for them. Good luck putting your life in their hands and being a part of what destroys this planet.
@@asdf3568 One more thing, it wouldn't be a poor country if MF's didn't keep coming in being allowed to EXPLOIT and TAKE all the rich minerals and resources it has to be used in it's own country
Pretty cool documentary! Please make more, its so interesting. It really make me want to travel there or do documentaries of my own. I need more videos of you - theyre really cool. Common, please :)
Began my travels round Cambodia 20 years ago, shocked to see how it's changed. Sihanoukville was peaceful and beautiful with great evening vibe on the beaches. Looks the opposite now, I feel for the khmer being left behind. Shrey Leachs beach bar was great for me, wonderful people.
Typical cultural racism. If you have never lived on $10 a month without water, electricity and sanitation just like the locals lived 20 years ago, you have no right to lament the "peaceful and beautiful" past of Cambodia. When the Chinese came, they brought along decent jobs that pay locals $400-500 a month. By contrast, you Westernern tourists earning $50,000-100,000 a year prefer the Cambodians to live in the idyllic past of extreme poverty on $10 a day. What hypocrisy!
@@cosmoobserver3416 you are right
@@cosmoobserver3416 To come in for Businesses and Helping Khmer people to be Better that is Great News.
But for some Country Come in and live with Khmer 10-25 years for Their Evil intentions is To invade and Control Cambodians government and ethnic Cleansing.
That's Pure Evil in the Heart and brainless and Clueless about life.
you're right, Shihanouk was my favorite beach destination and it leaves me in shock to see how much the province has changed within a couple of years. Chinese might think chinese investments bring jobs to Cambodians with high salary. In fact, those investments also draw many chinese to go to Shihanouk Ville to set up business there which drive the property price to skyrocket. Many contruction jobs are offered to chinese, many businesses and restaurants are opened by chinese for chinese. In the end, locals cannot afford to continue business there due to high property price driven by chinese business, and many casino, karaoke and more are opened everywhere in a place that was supposed to be a beautiful beach destination for the nations and tourists around the globe.
@@cosmoobserver3416 cultural racism hahaha. You have no idea about this place.
Beautiful work
what a great video. Best wishes to all especially the Chinese girl who is in a foreign country and yes- we all deserve happiness and freedom as this world belongs to us all
I might sound rude here but if my poor country got huge investment for some patches of forest being removed and local life being disturbed, I would still take the trade.
People from developed countries don't seem to understand, living a life where your livelyhood depends on good rain so that you and ur family doesn't starve is not a good life.
Sure, a land not touched by modernization has it's charm but at some point people want the modern comfort and improve quality of life.
Sad for my poor Cambodian people and Happy to my rich Cambodian people...I hope one day Cambodia will get zero poverty.....❤️❤️❤️
Wishing is a good thing..... But in Reality is Not Possible. .... Even in The United States and Around the World like in Japan, there are many people are Homeless below Poverty line....😓😓
Life is Not Fair....🤷
Great documentary. I've spent time in Vietnam as a researcher. I was in Cambodia in 2004. At that time, I noticed how Vietnam pretty much controlled so many things in Cambodia, especially in Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh felt like an outpost of Vietnam (and there's so much tension between these two countries because Vietnam invaded Cambodia and toppled the Khmer Rouge). I think one of the huge problems for Cambodia is that the Khmer Rouge pretty much crippled its population mentally and financially. Few people have the capital--or know-how--to do large scale development projects. So everything is done with outside 'help.'
But it's getting better! The younger generations want to change that, attendances in Universities are high and many want to see their country thrive
@@carotele yeah. im surprised. this generation of khmer people i met are very smart. i visit cambodia and i remember meeting student that were so smart. 10 years later, i see them all left cambodia for better life. the problem is the most of those smart kids wont ever come back. but lucky, there's still some plenty smart people there that is changing the country for the better.
@hoàng nguyễn everyone is welcome
Yeah because Cambodia is dirt poor. Projects like this will help alleviate that
@@ringfitnopinkies So people in cities like NYC are worse off now than they were a 100 years ago?
Best wishes to the two ladies. They are hard working business people. It's great to hear their perspective. I also live in SHV but not near the beach area where businesses are running. I know that their livelihood are indeed suffering. We can't do nothing but to brace for the worst and hope for the very best.
What a beautiful documentary!
The thing about CZcams is that here and there you come across gems that expand your world. This is one of them. Watching this doco, I felt that real people from a place I have never experienced, spoke to me about their world, their hopes, dreams and lamentations. Thank you, and Merry Christmas.
Wow thank you! We're very touched by your comment, that's what we aimed after all. We'll let the ladies know as well. Merry Christmas!
I cried every time my friends did in this video. It's been heaven and it's been hell. Still shocked to come across this at random. I left to take a break from the place, now stuck in a covid quarantine indefinitely in Battambang. Thanks for making this video, I needed to see my friends. May we all rise up and triumph in this place, only way out is up.❤️
@@chrisdonegan2566 Thanks Chris, hope you'll get out of the quarantine. I don't know if you remember but we've encountered many times haha, it's Carol n Judith :)
@@carotele haha I figured we must have met. Hope to be home soon. If you see me, say hi. I'll remember you by face but I'm terrible with names. My brain is wired for song lyrics 🤣😂
I don't know if the good people who made this touching documentary understood the song's lyrics at the end? It couldn't be more poignantly relevant to the life stories told in this film. Well done.
I'll let my co-worker know! Thank you so much for this comment, it's been more than a year that we've done the doc and comments like these still warms up our hearts.
what’s the song? I love it so much
@@nathanleach9470 Hi Nathan! Sorry about the late reply. Here's a link to the song: czcams.com/video/4oompuRZR9o/video.html. It's a sentimental song about a tragic love sung by Cambodia's pre-war legendary singer Ms Ros Serey Sothea. Take care.
So this video is less about a war but two countries whose citizens benefit from each other's existence. Touching stories.
My Cambodian wife would sit on the beach all day eating squid and octopus and chatting with the sellers. We last went there two years ago, and we vowed we would never go back. The local restaurants we loved had closed or been bulldozed. It breaks my heart how the locals have been sidelined. All three interviewees had good stories to tell, and I had tremendous sympathy for the Chinese lady. Unfortunately, selling Sihanoukville to the Chinese has killed the town. It's a very Cambodian tragedy. The Chinese lady said one thing that resonated - everyone should see Cambodia at least once. It is a remarkable land with remarkable people. Super documentary. Thanks for posting it. Liked.
We appreciate so much your response thank you! Country of wonders
Yeah it is a cool country with cool people.
Typical cultural racism. Shame on you! Preserving local culture is NOT preserving local poverty and underdevelopment!
If you have never lived on $10 a month without water, electricity and sanitation just like the locals lived 20 years ago, you have no right to claim that the Chinese has "killed" the town. When the Chinese came, they brought along decent jobs that pay locals $ 400-500 a month. By contrast, you Westernern tourists earning $ 50,000-100,000 a year prefer the Cambodians to live in the idyllic past of extreme poverty on $ 10 a day. Some "kind" Westerners may give small tips of $1 or 2 to locals just like tossing bananas to monkeys. Is that real benevolence? What hypocrisy!
Mind you. If you really love the locals, go to the most remote places of Cambodia and live on wild bananas and river water just like locals. That's the true harmony between human and nature, the real way of preserving the "unspoiled", "pristine" local culture.
@@cosmoobserver3416 The Chinese investments in Sihanoukville are based on destroying pristine beaches to build poorly constructed condos, with waste waters going directly in the sea. They built mostly casinos, which attract drug trafficking, money laundering and all sorts of criminal activities. Very few Cambodians are hired by these ventures, most being driven away from the city they lived in because the Chinese have taken over all sectors of the local economy, from small restaurants to tuktuk driving to barber shops... You speak of development but clearly this is not development, this is imperialism.
@@popol5173 Ah ha! Finally a white imperialist is speaking in defense of your past glories, eh? What did French colonists do to benefit the local community during their 90-year reign in Cambodia? Everybody loves "pristine beaches," but how do locals make a living? Without modernization, their life is hardly any different from the Stone Ages. Ask yourself if you're willing to live on the pristine beach all your life without drinkable water, electricity, sanitation, health and education? You'd be crazy if you can survive one day without Internet access. You tourists can enjoy the pristine beaches in the luxury resorts of Cambodia with all modern facilities because of the industrial legacy you inherit from your white colonialist ancestry. But what about the locals living in extreme poverty? They need foreign direct investment (FDI), which is key to their modernization.
You said very few locals were hired by Chinese. That's ridiculous. The Chinese taking over tuktuk driving? Give me evidence. The Chinese are good at doing business, but it does not mean that local ppl cannot benefit from development. Pls watch 11:03 here, testimony of the woman in red. Before, locals make $120-150 a month. Now they can earn up to $400-500. Without Chinese investors, how do they earn so much more? I also hate those investors involved in the casino business, but who gave them the license? If the gov is corrupt, blame them, not investors. Policymakers should be wise enough not to allow investors to do whatever they want.
Last time I went to Sihanoukville was in 2012 and it was still okay. That’s also when it started to completely transform.
Be humble for we come from earth, be divine for we are made from stars. Thank you Cambodia for the memories I have of your country and no one can erase them
For any country with mature regulations and administration, investments are a good thing. Blaming foreign investors for your own admistrative failure is irresponsible. The question should go to your government, where the tax goes that should have been used to help the locals?
the problem is not the investment or honeytrap. the problem is all the business is brought up by foreigner. money should stay in a country if you want to help or prosper. if they want to be build infrastructure, you hired the local contractor there in their country. dont bring your own. that way your donation paid the worker there and not your own people.
just like angkor watt is lease by vietnam but it wasnt the people who would want that. cambodian has so much pride in their history heritage that theyre are the only country with temple image on their flag. to have it lease by other country has to be corruption.
Yes.
@@BlueRice As I know even Indonesia's contractor came to Cambodia to build Sihanoukville, Cambodia not only inviting China but also Malaysia Thailand Singapore Japan to invest there. Aeon Japan also there.
My thoughts exactly. Blame Hun Sen.
Well done! Bravo! 👏🏽
94-97 an urban planner's dream...this is a far cry when I was there, hoping for a sustainable urban planning...too bad that didn't happen.
Perhaps the smartest, most elegant and to the point docu not just about sick SHV but about the rest of Cambodia AND about China !!!
Thanks for making this, I opened a restaurant on Otres back in 2011 till 2016. I'm a westerner who just wanted to get away from my own culture and find some peace. I'm partly responsible for the terrible change that's happened there recently, but I'm also part of a lot of wonderful things that happened. It's the best most incredible experience of my life so far, but I think adventure and culture left Cambodia around the same time I did.
Yeah you're a westerner who just want to go on vacation. These people are dirt poor and just want a job and see their lives improve.
@@asdf3568 I agree, I hope everyone's lives improve with all the Chinese investment. It's all just happening so fast the locals cant keep up and they're being pushed out by costs rising faster than the economic advantages that might help them.
@@hiakari789 Plenty of housing for them to live in outside the city. And it's not a huge metropolitan city either. I don't see any downsides to this for the Cambodian people. The special economic zone is going to be a game changer for them
@@hiakari789 Nah. The oceans are rising like what 1 cm a year. I wouldn't worry about that.
@@asdf3568 I think you're the first person I've ever spoke to who is paid to sway opinion online, or maybe you're an AI? Either way I hope work doesnt get you down.
Omg! For Moms kitchen, I worked there as a manager. Wowow
I know Sofar, she's a survivor. I wish Rosie and Mum will be fine too. I've seen OuChheuteal Beach before and after all bars and restaurants were demolished, to make place for new projects. That beach had so much character. A peaceful balance of Cambodians and barangs. I hope Otres beach can give some of that flavour back. It's been a while I've been there.
Amazing ladies well done
It's tough to survive in a modernizing world, it's the same everywhere.
very very nice thank you
Such a nice documentary and you deserve more views. Many comments think Cambodia is selling it to China. I don’t agree with it. If a country wanna to develop, it has to sacrifice some valuable things at the beginning. This is how the Britains did in the 1800s, the Americans did in the 1900s and our Chinese did in the 2000s. From my point of view, Cambodia will be a well developed country in the near future and its citizens will benefit from it.
Doesn't make it right ... Were the people asked I'd say no
@@gregmurray1255 “people” is just a tool to manipulate people
not really sure that makes sense but ok.
Last there 5 years ago, incredibly different to my first time 2005. World away
lol funny Kompot in Bosnia is a fruit drink made of apples or peaches or what ever fruit you like.Cambodia has always fascinated me because of their history and culture.The first girls are beautiful and wish them all the best and the Chinese girl too hope she gets to go follow her dreams.Respect to Cambodia from a friend in Bosnia
i'll just say, the chinese girl is something else, what she said about dream and what money is in raw straightforward way deserve my clap.
nice video
thanks
wow very nice
Of course, it's a Chinese property now. They renamed it already, now it's called "West Port". They invested billions of dollars in this city, country, they would never give it up. Pity... The city is lost....
Its just a matter of who is the first to do it. If not China, maybe its gonna be USA, France or maybe Russian :)
@@ericaling3105 Better The USSR!😂 Soviet Union was the best state of the world! All what they did, all they constructed, they did for the people, not for themselves. The Chinese build for themselves only!
@@austrian96 oh yeah...Where is USSR now ? lol
@@ericaling3105 One day it will raise up!😀 And kick bad guys asses!😀
@@austrian96 We'll see...:)
I don't get the "squeeze water out of octopus" thing, what's that?
By squeezing the water out I think it makes the octopus cheaper maybe
By squeezing the water out of octopus is equivalent to drying the octopus or squid. Such processed products are sold at much higher prices. Dried octopus/squid are a delicacy and expensive.
Nice
Originally a Cambodian city is slowly changing into a Chinese city later on we might abandon the Cambodian culture and language in Sihanoukville once construction is done
Slowly ...this is not how culture works ..dam sad
That is what people go thru when the country is developing, it happen everywhere.
If the government and the local authorities can safeguard the tourist and businesses, this place have a good chance to thrive. Most importantly is criminal activities.
Thanks for the documentary. Really heart broken to see the cozy, peaceful city of Sihanoukville change into a chinese town, losing all its character. Khmer people are ousted for new chinese building: casinos and hotels. Crime is rising
柬埔寨人需要他们自己决定，你的命运你自己做决定
@@user-zy7eo9xr1y I agreed. The Khmer government is weak. Hun Sen is the blame. The poor suffer the most.
@@user-zy7eo9xr1y Bc they're cambochina
Good video china is doing the same thing in Lao.
those people are not as smart as my viet people, law say foreigners cant own land in the country.
Foreigners can't own land in Cambodia either. So to get around that the government allows them 99 year leases...
Such a shame that Sihanoukville will change forever. I have lots of fond memories staying there, that will sadly never be retrieved.
Lots of love to the people of Cambodia. ❤
Why are you sad? Better comeback and bring a lot of money because too this city could be the next Singapore
All very strong and powerful women. They will make their dreams come true, no doubt.
Government, ppls all should work together to built country success. No country help you to become rich , unless you do .same here in india too
Ahhh cambodia, my favorite chinese province!
who's the women from china?
what is the Chinese girls name in this interview
Had many a grat time at Eden :)
I pray for our country and the Cambodian people because Chinese people take over our country , If you ask me if I want to go back to Cambodia my answer will be NEVER because I don't like our government that's my opinion, another a few more years what's gonna happen to our people where are they afford to live.
that is why Cambodian will NEVER developed
if you want something, you'll have to fight for it, that's how most developed countries had been through, people spent hundred of years to fight for their laws, their rights...
rather than fight, you choose to flee the country, and never return, but hope that your country will change for the better ? i mean what kind of delusion is that ?
The problem lies in human resources. Also no basical industry foundation, no money, no good policy, basically nothing, then Cambodia would have to depend on China(or any superpower after that) for much longer time because they wouldn't have a necessary mean to gain independence. Cambodia needs good leadership and good human resources management which change society on high levels then there would be a good future and hope for Cambodians.
i was there 8 years ago and i could see then the take over starting.. i wish the cambodian people well they were very nice to me and kind.
Poor my country... The locales are poor, but chineses are rich. More or less, We are meant to be in disadvantages. We need money and they have money. Government doesn't care much about Locals' difficulities. They need those investment to develop the country.
Sihanouk live in China for almost 50 years before he was decease is Sihanouk khmer or China..
Sihanoukville is a Cambodian city that has more Chinese people live in just like Chinatown in New York City
nice. iam bangladesh
I have mixed feeling about this. One hand, Chinese development has brought some opportunities here, and you can clearly see some locals benefiting from it. But one the other hand, Sihanoukville is losing its individual charm. Its also brought a lot of shady activities.
This is true. But Cambodians don't care about charm. They care about not starving.
If you don’t mind me share my personal opinion, I’m no one special.. but lived through those horrific years under pol pot, and the current stud that run the country now is one of them. Khmer people will forever second to other people. We need to creat from opportunity for Khmer people. Khmer first, we went through hell during the civil war. This can’t continues to be this way . Front end of the country need to clean house and change.
@@asdf3568 yes, but my point is, how many Cambodians are actually benefitting from these investments?
@@stoneruler Shit lots. Also when Shenzhen became a special economic zone it was a city of 30 000 people. Today it's a city of 10 million.
Only the west who have the Rights to build big cities and modern infrastructures , other countries should keep being poor to preserve ecology
I love all the women in this documentary
Basically Chinese now own Cambodia and cambodia people are at the bottom expect the few elites..... Same shit happening in Africa
Actually, China was at the same position 30 years ago.
You need to learn how to work with forefingers,
and make your own future.
Pol pot modern day
Casino are good for money laundering like Crown in Australia
Sounds like Las Vegas to me
កម្រៃភាគច្រើនបានទៅគេ។
Cambodia welcomes Chinese investment and it is creating jobs and building the entire country. Any where in the world people will complain about their living standards if they live in poverty. Before China invested any money Cambodian people still complained. Also you should not blame the CCP for the ill doings of Cambodian government officials.
It is no longer Cambodian City unfortunately. When it comes to economy, the Chinese own many in Cambodia. The Khmer people work for the Chinese. Therefore, they are the Chinese Labors. What consider as Cambodian own nowadays? Where is the Khmer Government in this? Too easy for everything that is why people love to take advantage of Cambodia and its people. Very sad :( Complement goes to the ladies, their English is wonderful compared to some of the Khmer people who live in the States. Bravo to you!! I'm also glad to hear the Chinese who lives in Cambodia and her point of view. She feels more freedom and safe, it gives her the opportunity to become someone in the land of the Kingdom of Wonder.
YOU only owned Angkor Wat...
You don’t understand what “investment” means. How many countries are dying for those money. If you do more research on how Chinese develop its economy in the past 40 years, the answer will be different.
@@ioogleio
Such an Insult. I'm glad you understood what it means to Invest in third world countries and all. Power to you!
@Turd Ferguson China don’t have enough labor in its own country so why it need to export construction workers to other countries? The only reason is that Chinese construction worker are the most competent workers in the world. They are not only good at construction, but also they are hard working. Apparently, at least for this moment there are not enough skilled workers in many developing countries.
The chinese are coming !!!!
@Carnelian Kush I knew. There are TWO kinds, long time fully integrated Chinese, and the new arrivals. The latter are invading, the Hun Sen government is corrupt and inept to stop them. They bribe and in the long run, they will turn Cambodia into a colony.
China come to acquire westerners come for holiday for the locals to grow was better with the western tourism they will let too late sadly
Only 10 years ago( in 2011), it was rare to see more than 6 people swimming along the whole of Otras beach. It really was heaven on earth. How fortunate were us expats to experience living at such a place...before the Beijing plague came to town.
KPS was where people like my wife's family and her friends used to come for a holiday, now no more. There is not so much usable seafront in Cambodia, between Thailand and Vietnam they have been squeezed into just what little is left. Now even that is being taken away by this insane development. Casinos where the guests never interact with the locals but just fly in, gamble and fly out again. I guess Cambodians will learn to speak Mandarin pretty quickly so maybe then the gamblers might leave the casinos, but somehow I doubt it.
Joi mai ah hun sen
Like Swimming in the Yankze River. 😎😆🤗👻
so sad...!
Cambodian need to make law like the chinese do it in china, that is foreigner cant buy or own real estate in their country, copy vietnam dont let them chinese in.
too late
Foreigners can't own land in Cambodia. The politicians receiving chinese money worked out that giving 99 year leases is a way to solve that problem.
@@wayneholmes637 99-year means forever. Vietnam government doesn't accept foreigner buy or own the Vietnam Real Estate even a year.
បងប្អូនជនរួមជាតិនៃប្រទេសរបស់ខ្ញុំ នេះជាការវិនិយោគដែលបង្កើតផលចំណេញ ហើយអ្នកអាចទទួលបានប្រាក់ចំណូលយ៉ាងច្រើនជារៀងរាល់ថ្ងៃតាមរយៈការបណ្តាក់ទុនរកប្រាក់ចំណូល សួរខ្ញុំពីរបៀបចាប់ផ្តើមសម្រាប់ការណែនាំ។
Ly hout cambochia Valerio street los Angeles Hollywood van nuys my brother rest in peace 🕊️✌️🕊️✌️✌️✌️🕊️ love u mayco cochamo Amen
After watching this I have so many questions such as: If by the Cambodian Constitution that foreigners can only own up to 49% of a plot of land, then who is partnering with all these Chinese investors/land developers and casino owners? Is the SEZ, which is where Sihanoukville is , exempt from the constitution? How are all these Chinese people able to get the VISAs so easily to stay in the country? And those Chinese that bring their children, where do they go to school?
Here’s a simple answer. It’s called corruption. Bribery is how everything works in Cambodia. I was born in Kompongsom (now Sihanoukville), Cambodia, and I don’t want to step foot in Cambodia due to the chaos and hardcore corruption.
There are many chinese schools there.
@@justchillingoutside3548 then blame China :)
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It is such a shame what has happened here, I used to love going to the beach with my wife and kids but now all the prices have doubled or trebled and no Khmers can afford to visit it either. Before it was a good mix of expats and local Khmers, now it is just the Chinese. The Khmers have been pushed out of their own homes for Chinese profit.
Get the FuckOutta Dodge!
I fear Cambodia will end up like Singapore
Singapore is a bad place?! you lived there before? a lot of rice Chinese and Americans wants to live there
@@wilsonwalker7428 he is not saying bad place. Do you thing Singapore early history not like Sihanoukvile now? The Rich Chinese come and building Singapore at that time
Sadly that whole area is now FUBAR
Cambodia did not ride the dragon, they died under it. There's a lot better ways of harnessing investment money, and produce good return for Sihanoukville.
Tell me how?
@@ericaling3105 for a start go launch some PPP for the rail line to Phnom Penh
@@MrBoliao98 I get your point, but as we know its hard to rely only on "Clean" government to speed up the development is not so easy and even so, it will take a very long time afterwhile other country is speeding up more..IYKWIM.
@@MrBoliao98 Eventhough im not cambodian, but i feel the same with my country..There is a risk to take to faster development progress.
The problem with chinese business,is they bring their own people......it happens in my country as well and also in Namibia...there now 40,000 Chinese people in Namibia they are literally minority now.....and another problem they are rude to local people I mean proper disrespect and I thought USA citizens are rude,,they dont allow local people to come to their market they say it's not for them..🤔🤔🤔🤔🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Am so confused......
Thanks for stirring up ethnic tensions and conflict. We can always depend on westerners to do that. Guess there's nothing better to do?
Have you actually watched the doc or only read the comments?
Shut up
Haha these people all know each other. They may have been interviewed separately but I know them all personally. Maybe you could find something better to do than race bait about people you don't know.
@Turd Ferguson is that really you?? Or ya just a fan?
It doesnt matter. Whoever helps them they will accept the generosity. In the vietnam war USA bombed them into the stone age.
The Usa also shake hands with China in 1969, 1970 to fight and destroy communist. China had border war with Ussr ( Russia ) in 1969. China and the Us also sponsored Pol Pot and funded them to attack Vietnam in 1979.
Say no to CCP
Campuchina
i am glad i was there many times before the Chinese destroyed the place
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China city no more Cambodia
Wao...Sihanoukville has turn itself from a sleepy fishing village in the past 40 years in to a world major metropolis ans showcase for the South East Asia. Special thanks to the Governments of Hun Sen all level of locals Cambodia official to make it possible. A world that we with have to share, same do a city we got to share, too.
that chinese chick sounds bad ass
It's hotter than hell here.
No worry ill deleted all