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  • Опубліковано 27 лис 2019
  • A Chinese casino empire to rival Macau is investing big in Cambodia, transforming a once-sleepy seaside town into a hub for gangsters and shady operators.
    Tens of thousands of Chinese workers have moved to Sihanoukville, many working in the backrooms of hastily built casinos or labouring night and day on construction sites.
    As soaring skyscrapers fill the horizon, the Cambodian government is welcoming the massive cash injection with open arms.
    But as homes are demolished and roads collapse under the weight of construction, resentment among locals is growing.
    101 East investigates the underworld figures cashing in on Cambodia’s casino boom.
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  • @OnePiece-fy2kt
    @OnePiece-fy2kt 4 роки тому +810

    Cambodian here. I can assure you that not a single ordinary Cambodian living soul likes what's happening in Sihanouk right now, except for the tycoons and those high-ranked government officials who get all the benefits.

    • @JR537
      @JR537 3 роки тому +41

      Not until Cambodian speaks out what you think is good for Cambodian either rich or poor. Your future will be in at risk. Stand up and fight what you care for.

    • @youwatch1995
      @youwatch1995 3 роки тому +19

      @@JR537 They can't their people are afraid to fight back their government. The easiest way to free them is invasion

    • @JR537
      @JR537 3 роки тому +10

      @@youwatch1995
      Agree! They might be afraid about their life.

    • @pratuengsukperm9291
      @pratuengsukperm9291 3 роки тому +3

      You are right

    • @ivornappinion9406
      @ivornappinion9406 3 роки тому +18

      I Believe the locals was happier with the genuine tourist taking a holiday there ,not this :{ i have visited Pnomh penh and Siem reap and really enjoyed it too :} 2003/2004

  • @Atreyx
    @Atreyx Рік тому +22

    The human trafficking problem in Cambodia is because the corruption of their government that exposing human trafficking can lead to bad reputations for Cambodia

  • @Birdylockso
    @Birdylockso 3 роки тому +167

    "It's a Kingdom of Wonders, and there are many things to wonder about." That's just gold...

  • @jonathaneffemey944
    @jonathaneffemey944 3 роки тому +3

    Thanks for posting.

  • @raykaruna4062
    @raykaruna4062 4 роки тому +57

    Its used to be a beautiful and peaceful city😭but now it's awful to even think about it as a Cambodia citizen.

    • @azzking9305
      @azzking9305 3 роки тому +2

      I feel the same way about Sydney in Australia

    • @paokang1242
      @paokang1242 3 роки тому +2

      Cambodia don’t have nothing. I’m Cambodia 🇰🇭 too I’m Asian too but not I live in USA 🇺🇸

  • @nibig3869
    @nibig3869 4 роки тому +61

    "Well we're living in The Kingdom of Wonder"
    "There are a lot of things to wonder about"
    These sentences parks a lof punch.

  • @papayapapaya8339
    @papayapapaya8339 Рік тому +11

    most of the police and law enforcement here are ransomed by corruption

  • @Marvin2141554272
    @Marvin2141554272 3 роки тому +64

    As someone who speaks khmer and chinese, the translations are spot on. Something most fail to do and should not be taken for granted.

  • @kansophano
    @kansophano 3 роки тому +4

    Thank you for sharing this video

  • @Thered09100
    @Thered09100 4 роки тому +421

    blame local authority too not just chinese.. because they who really want chinese money..

    • @Dignity100
      @Dignity100 4 роки тому +6

      there might be some truth to what you say

    • @jackalshine1369
      @jackalshine1369 4 роки тому +22

      When a country ia corrupted, they would need easy money. Same thing happened to Malaysia during Najib regime.

    • @user-qv9lx1zc8p
      @user-qv9lx1zc8p 4 роки тому +2

      @William Singht Both china and japan is very corrupted.

    • @NobodyYouKnow754
      @NobodyYouKnow754 4 роки тому +3

      Everyone wants money and China has a printing machine

    • @kl_guy6969
      @kl_guy6969 4 роки тому +8

      only failed person will always complain how other making money!

  • @rorngsorn5272
    @rorngsorn5272 2 роки тому +10

    I loved Sihanoukville when I was there the first time in 1999. Beautiful and peaceful. But when I went back in 2017, I was shocked and never want to go back.

    • @wallenbergphoto
      @wallenbergphoto 3 місяці тому +2

      Same me first time 1999, The Otres beach, 1 ONLY 1 beach bar no guesthouses or hotels only 2 home stays on the whole beach. Already at that time, US and French investment companies had bought the land imagine how much they must have sold it for to the Chinese. It was a very very quiest place, I stayed at a French Cambodian Homestay, had to go to Central market with a motorbike everyday to buy breakfast, not even breakfast servings at the whole beach. At new year, Millennium, they had to have AK47 guards at the entrance to a hippie party with max, 100 forerngeirs at that time all of the foreigners of whole of Sihanoukville.. Cambodia that time was Mystical, not really safe, guns around everywhere, Cannabis sold everywhere, and strange people, was all the Expats living there. I never met another Swede in Cambodia for 1,5 month there, and even in Bangkok people warned us to go hahaha... Those where the times, OFF THE BEATEN TRACK Truly those times. Never again Sihanoukville ever, so sad to see this. Again dont get me wrong I be happy to see the local population get it even with this muich better standard etc. then in 1999, BUT the most dont get any peaice of the cake!!!! It's neo Capitalism corruption at its best.
      Strongest Memory Sianoukville 1999-2000. Boat trip there from Thailand, Trat, Out boat catch fire, there were like 10 sheeps cramped into our "made for tourist river boat in Amsterdam style boat", packed with also like 100 people 20 sheeps and no way to get out only one door... And there were super high waves so you could see the boat swinging and half the window got under water every turn. Welll inside Siuhanoukville there was Three kids max, 12 years old riding around in a very old Mercedes car YES car, with a 22 mm rifle pointing at buffalos. Also the police chief of Siunoukville, having wine and beer with my and my Ex. and wanted her deeply, even put his 9 mm gun on the table to show his power but in the end he respected my girlfriend. he came to the beach new year with like 20 drunk other police, AK47 Freakin RPG on the backs.. And just was wild..

  • @sreyounoem3035
    @sreyounoem3035 2 роки тому +20

    As an Cambodian citizen i don't want my country to develop like this, i want to stand up and fight for it we lost more and more, but what can i do? when we say something true about our social i guess i'll disappear on this world. i have a family i have to work hard for my stomach. what i want to tell you guys we live so hard in this country.

  • @jewelrybag4557
    @jewelrybag4557 4 роки тому +253

    Gambling, Drgus, Alcohol and Prostitution bring nothing but misery to us all.

    • @garethifan1034
      @garethifan1034 4 роки тому +16

      Exports of china - wherever they go, trouble and misery is never far behind

    • @PP-vf1kx
      @PP-vf1kx 4 роки тому +2

      Jewelry Bag Is Full Of Junks

    • @bosheek8632
      @bosheek8632 4 роки тому +19

      @@garethifan1034 They learned from the British during the Opium wars. The US and British do this through their government also.

    • @garethifan1034
      @garethifan1034 4 роки тому +8

      @@bosheek8632 I challenge you to show me where this is happening anywhere in the UK or US..under these conditions - having the very same consequences that we see here..?
      You have no argument other than '..but..but..they did it FIRST..' usually known as a straw man argument. So does this justify chinese doing this today?? Is that your justification of this criminal activity??
      Quite telling that you have to refer all the way back to the opium wars to find any kind of reply to this..that's the taught answer of all paid chinese shills who are ignorant of history..
      Ignored..

    • @bosheek8632
      @bosheek8632 4 роки тому +9

      @@garethifan1034 CIA Drug running in South America... DYOR

  • @jamiemckenzie8705
    @jamiemckenzie8705 4 роки тому +254

    I used to live there in 2015, there were no high rise buildings, no traffic, just a sleepy little backpacker town, with beach parties every night, loads of the hippie type walking around barefoot... It blows my mind how much it has changed in such a small amount of time. The place is unrecognisable to me now after watching this.

    • @adellewilliams3266
      @adellewilliams3266 4 роки тому +1

      haha

    • @Ben-yp9nh
      @Ben-yp9nh 4 роки тому +28

      Well I suppose the silver lining to this cloud, is the the disappearance of the backpackers.

    • @jamiemckenzie8705
      @jamiemckenzie8705 4 роки тому +38

      @@Ben-yp9nh Backpackers & Weed or Chinese Mafia & Guns.. Umm backpackers please.. lol

    • @kevin080592
      @kevin080592 4 роки тому +28

      @@jamiemckenzie8705 same..backpacker parties and hippie types anytime over chinese mafia syndicates

    • @nehcooahnait7827
      @nehcooahnait7827 4 роки тому +2

      I think even the Chinese knows about ‘don’t boost ur economy with casinos’... start with manufacturing...

  • @seanconnery1277
    @seanconnery1277 2 роки тому +3

    Very good documentary.Thank you.

  • @user-jc3bd7gn6e
    @user-jc3bd7gn6e 2 роки тому

    This is a awesome channel.Thanks

  • @sunnienie239
    @sunnienie239 4 роки тому +19

    i can say thank you Enough to Al Jazeera English i enjoying watching this channel i learn so much watching it

  • @madykeo
    @madykeo 4 роки тому +6

    Wow thank you so much for making this documentary. Smh oh my poor homeland ;(

  • @BB-od5xv
    @BB-od5xv 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you 🌹

  • @101MRSPICE
    @101MRSPICE 3 роки тому

    Thank God for Aljazera

  • @Kylelongwest
    @Kylelongwest 4 роки тому +50

    as a cambodian, i gotta agree. the city grows too fast, inhabitants can't keep up. i don't go to the city anymore, i don't know what it's like now. usually tourists go to koh rong, they no longer go sihanouk ville, it's for chinese now. the hotel price is now more expensive than hong kong

    • @DarthMalgusSith_Lord
      @DarthMalgusSith_Lord 4 роки тому +1

      if i visit Cambodia again, i prefer Kep or Koh Rong or Koh Kong

    • @phouleng
      @phouleng 4 роки тому +1

      បើនិយាយបែបនេះ ចុះខ្មែរនៅក្រុងព្រះសីហនុ គិតយ៉ាងមិចទៅ ស្លាប់អស់ហើយ? ខួរក្បាលស្អី? តើឯងជាខ្មែរទេ

    • @orangerightgold7512
      @orangerightgold7512 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah its the artificial growth from criminal organizations that causes this. Same thing happened in las vegas. The residents there can barely afford to live near las vegas after its boom.

    • @alantan9863
      @alantan9863 4 роки тому

      Are you serious? Hotel room more expensive than HK? Btw, make sense. Protests.

    • @mothermahapp5338
      @mothermahapp5338 4 роки тому

      កិម ឡេង មកពីគាត់អត់ទៅព្រោះតែក្រុងព្រះសីហនុនោះមិនមានសន្តិសុខ។

  • @resurrexi
    @resurrexi 4 роки тому +28

    Feels like gentrification similar to what's seen in San Francisco, except instead of tech companies driving up the living expenses, it's casino business

  • @foxtroteighty877
    @foxtroteighty877 Рік тому

    Thanks for your excellent video

  • @raminderkapoor9413
    @raminderkapoor9413 Рік тому

    Thank you al jazera news for me

  • @rcordh5657
    @rcordh5657 4 роки тому +15

    when the development so fast, the infrastructure couldn't handle it, its so strange to see massive tall skyscrapers and large building sitting in the middle of dirt roads with potholes and chaos streets
    this city is abnormally construct.

  • @mikhaailkabristante7496
    @mikhaailkabristante7496 4 роки тому +15

    I was in Cambodia last 2016,most of the Cambodian people I met were happy and honest people.
    That time there were few Casino ,and now more and more casino comming...

    • @tsdz2008
      @tsdz2008 3 роки тому

      Casinos are the malignant tumor and cancer of civilized society!

  • @kengpiseth8837
    @kengpiseth8837 3 роки тому +8

    It’s very saddening to see people forced out of their own home for tall buildings.

  • @Islandviber
    @Islandviber 2 роки тому +31

    NGO workers who live in luxury residences and paid relatively well who do little to help but just report on the situation they can do very little for to make difference. Hypocritical westerners who want to help but will not sacrifice their own standards of living.

  • @khmerspirit3351
    @khmerspirit3351 4 роки тому +186

    I felt sad after having watched this documentary. It is totally different compared to 20 years ago when Sihanoukville was beautiful and tranquil. I have to blame Cambodian GVT who drive this place into this situation today. I hope they use Cambodian law and enforcement properly to stabilise that place.🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭

    • @koalatheworld
      @koalatheworld 4 роки тому +17

      The Cambodian govt is probably corrupt.

    • @brucelee8926
      @brucelee8926 4 роки тому +12

      Chinese will pay the cambodian government under the table money so they can do anything they want. No future for the cambodian people

    • @PP-vf1kx
      @PP-vf1kx 4 роки тому +2

      Khmer Spirit Is Now The Dragon Soul

    • @danjomanjo2941
      @danjomanjo2941 4 роки тому +4

      Was there in 2012 - glad i did back then, now i would skip this sh*thole within a heart beat.

    • @nanking5705
      @nanking5705 4 роки тому

      Yeah too sad😥

  • @johnwest360
    @johnwest360 4 роки тому +18

    SO SAD THAT THIS IS NOW HAPPENING HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES!!!
    God bless Cambodia!!

    • @thomasstrider8965
      @thomasstrider8965 4 роки тому +1

      Justin Belmonte hmm now already happen like many years in phi and other places in south east Asia

    • @thanh1234271
      @thanh1234271 2 роки тому

      @@thomasstrider8965 not in vietnam :)

    • @hank4920
      @hank4920 Рік тому +1

      @@thanh1234271 Phu Quoc island will be next

    • @baoquoc3710
      @baoquoc3710 9 місяців тому

      @@hank4920 I traveled to Phu Quoc before, and surprise, still yet to see any trace of gambling hotel. I just simply have a good time there, maybe you should go to PQ first before drawing any conclusions

  • @ilovejaredtaylor8220
    @ilovejaredtaylor8220 2 роки тому +7

    I really miss and cry for the Cambodia and Thailand of 25 years ago. Greed

    • @YoLo-sq8kq
      @YoLo-sq8kq 2 місяці тому

      Why so you can exploit it and keep it a third world country?

  • @motorola1ish
    @motorola1ish 2 роки тому +5

    That's funny, when the owner that new $150 M casino says he is meeting all the local construction standards - and he says that while NOT wearing a hard hat in the middle of a construction zone.

  • @sataka2546
    @sataka2546 4 роки тому +73

    Well truth about all the vices but no different from Las Vegas.

  • @MardizoneNuth
    @MardizoneNuth 4 роки тому +8

    The truth is a sad truth but the saddest truth is that it is happening everywhere in the realm of a casino's world not just Cambodia 🇰🇭

  • @SL33P-WALK3R
    @SL33P-WALK3R 3 роки тому

    The intro was right out of a Box Office Movie Premiere!😂🤣

  • @sabaynews2565
    @sabaynews2565 3 роки тому

    Good idea man

  • @arthurwatts1680
    @arthurwatts1680 4 роки тому +13

    I grew up with gambling addicts - horse-racing mainly - and I'm surrounded by people who seem equally addicted to sports betting, but the immutable rule is that the house ALWAYS wins. We have a legal casino and numerous betting outlets all over my city in northern Australia - if I want, I can gamble 24/7. I've also spent an hour or so in a Cambodian casino waiting for my passport to be stamped on a border visa run out of Thailand, but very few games hold any appeal for me and I doubt that I would have been welcome at any table already surrounded by manic Chinese gamblers. At best, casinos MIGHT have cheap food and alcohol but that's it. Remove that and you may as well be handing your wallet to the guy at the door and getting a cab home. Online gambling doesn't even hold the prospect of a night out - why anyone would throw money down that drainpipe mystifies me. We are an odd species.

  • @fireiselia7939
    @fireiselia7939 4 роки тому +126

    "We live in the Kingdom of Wonder" .... best BS answer I ever heard. This will be my answer to any questions I don't know the answer.

    • @igorvadim3022
      @igorvadim3022 3 роки тому +1

      Blue Vonei 16:12 this guy answers mine I also live in Cambodia btw

    • @bsiwwuh6227
      @bsiwwuh6227 3 роки тому

      ₩&¥%€%£$@💋❤

    • @mrlee9801
      @mrlee9801 3 роки тому

      .

    • @moshood1balogun
      @moshood1balogun 3 роки тому

      🤣😂

    • @youflaw3285
      @youflaw3285 3 роки тому

      That was THE MF DUMBEST ANSWER HE COULDVE GAVE LMAO

  • @michabelly
    @michabelly 2 роки тому +2

    OMG I spent some time there 20 years ago. It was beautiful.

  • @jimkelly4596
    @jimkelly4596 3 роки тому +15

    I first arrived in Sihanoukville (SHV) 2009 and like most foreigners thoroughly enjoyed the climate, the seas, the low cost of living, the "laid back" vibe and the freedom from state control. If you ask if the redevelopment was detrimental to that SHV, the answer is a definite "yes". There was another SHV however, that occupied by the Khmer population. That SHV was a down-at-heel, undeveloped, poverty stricken fishing village which offered it's citizens very few opportunities to work their way out of their poverty. If you ask if the developments were detrimental to that SHV, if the transformation to a city designed to meet the 21st century, a transformation that brought a huge number of better paying jobs, ask if it was detrimental to that SHV and you'd get a resounding no. There is an additional extremely important factor when weighing pros and cons. This is to recognize that developments in Sihanoukville were part of a comprehensive deal between Cambodia and China. A true assessment can only be arrived at when the national context is included.

    • @raoplns
      @raoplns Рік тому +2

      There are better ways to make money than selling the soul and culture

    • @bodyloverz30
      @bodyloverz30 5 місяців тому +1

      @@raoplns Name them?

    • @keithw4920
      @keithw4920 Місяць тому

      Yes, it is all nice and good when one comes from a developed economy/city and gets to go to a foreign laid back land where costs are 1% of home. But wanting that laid back land to stay at 1% costs FOR YOUR OWN PLEASURE comes at the costs of the natives staying at that level.

  • @adamnan9437
    @adamnan9437 4 роки тому +95

    We live in the kingdom of wonder, LOL.

    • @royaltee960
      @royaltee960 4 роки тому

      who hire those guys what an idiot

    • @ogazmo
      @ogazmo 4 роки тому +7

      Lol he blame investor bringing in corruptions, have you guys go through the Cambodia immigration when you arrive at the airport? the officers were asking for tips most of the time...

    • @AdamLuiTube
      @AdamLuiTube 4 роки тому +6

      Cambodia's official name is Kingdom of Cambodia and the government markets it as Kingdom of Wonder to tourists, why is he an idiot for calling it what he grew up learning the name as...

    • @madykeo
      @madykeo 4 роки тому +1

      Well he was being sarcastic by following this sentence with "there are a lot of things to wonder about"

    • @madykeo
      @madykeo 4 роки тому +1

      Anyway I was laughing after he said those sentences too lol

  • @nicksawyer5852
    @nicksawyer5852 3 роки тому +41

    So sad to see this happening. 2007 sihanoukville was amazing. Feel for the Cambodian people 😭😢

  • @_HMCB_
    @_HMCB_ 3 роки тому +30

    Heartbreaking to see that mother and child living in the tent. The pattern: the wealthy living for themselves while exploiting the poor.

    • @spotato
      @spotato 2 роки тому +4

      If you fly to the world most developed city: LA, USA... you will find more tents then here!

  • @brimleyhillmassive
    @brimleyhillmassive 3 роки тому +165

    I was there in sihnoukville in 2009 and it was quite calm and beautiful. Signs of change were there but nothing could have prepared me for my return in 2019. It was heart breaking. Love and power to you Cambodians, your country is absolutely amazing and I love your people.

    • @panhachan8765
      @panhachan8765 2 роки тому +7

      Thank you so much for loving us we appreciate it but I want my old កម្ពុជា back 😡🤬😤😿👋🏻😑

    • @seanrodgers1839
      @seanrodgers1839 Рік тому

      I was there in 1997. Was nothing there really. Shocking to see this.

    • @livman9095
      @livman9095 Рік тому

      Casino is fine, whoever goes there has to travel there voluntarily; it's the online scams that is truly evil and destroying humanity.

    • @tl2245
      @tl2245 Рік тому

      You think what you are. The Cambodians need money and this is their chance. Their government allows legal gambling at first, and then things go this way.
      All in all, it's still much better than those dark colonized days. Cambodians get money right now and get independence.
      And good thing is the Cambodia government realizes the problems and crimes already and ask China to give help. I think future will be good and never ever good for you kind of former white masters.
      BTW I am fully confident that the west Europe will soon fall down into a crime heaven..

    • @brimleyhillmassive
      @brimleyhillmassive Рік тому

      @中国没盟友 Show me examples of the money being used to benefit other parts of the country and I'll stop being 'self righteous'.

  • @salessou517
    @salessou517 4 роки тому +129

    I just read comments from you guys, I can tell how you feel. Imagine me being a local

    • @ttvmikimoto5475
      @ttvmikimoto5475 4 роки тому +12

      I'm so sorry I hope your people make it through and end up flipping the situation in your favor.

    • @tichymusicrecords
      @tichymusicrecords 3 роки тому +6

      I am truly sorry to see happen to you, you know its your own land your birthright being taken like that, as a African i truly feel how you are feeling

    • @ivornappinion9406
      @ivornappinion9406 3 роки тому +1

      Good comment

    • @tonymoretti2347
      @tonymoretti2347 3 роки тому +2

      Ask people in Vancouver too

    • @thaddeojancervantes8641
      @thaddeojancervantes8641 3 роки тому

      F

  • @JDL1115
    @JDL1115 4 роки тому +10

    There’s reason why the Chinese government won’t let anyone open Casino in China. But Macau is exceptional.

  • @kongsovanmony5064
    @kongsovanmony5064 Рік тому +1

    I'm so devastated that they turned Sihanoukville into a land of casinos. When I went there in 2021, the city just felt black and white, There were just so many unfinished buildings and so, so many casinos. I have completely lost the joy and the vibrant of the city when I visited there in 2009.

  • @user-yf9uh4r25
    @user-yf9uh4r25 Рік тому +3

    2012년 시아누크빌에 방문하여 코롱섬에서 즐거운 시간을 경험하였습니다. 바다속 푸른 산호초와의 첫만남을 아직도 기억합니다. 마음이 너무 아프네요. 시아누크빌 시민들의 행복을 기원합니다

  • @wii60own
    @wii60own 4 роки тому +9

    Went to Sihanoukville and it was a dump 6 years ago. Now it's still a dump with some big buildings.

  • @shanetonkin2850
    @shanetonkin2850 4 роки тому +7

    “We live in the kingdom of wonder.. and uh.. there are many things to wonder about”
    Haha that is such a Cambodian way to answer an awkward question.

  • @earinsound
    @earinsound Рік тому

    i went to sihanoukville in 2002. almost no tourists. very quiet. can’t believe what i’m seeing here!!

  • @daniellebcooper7160
    @daniellebcooper7160 3 роки тому +3

    I lived in snooky for 10 years, and it was the best place to live in south east asia, now its to be avoided. Though i have to admit, that the under age girl who works in the casino, is far better off working there than the alternative.

  • @TheCornellJunkie
    @TheCornellJunkie 4 роки тому +97

    Dammit... My heart goest out to the people of Cambodia.... it’s not China. Your Government is corrupt.

    • @ramnath9598
      @ramnath9598 4 роки тому +5

      China help Asian countries USA help western countries

    • @ramnath9598
      @ramnath9598 4 роки тому +8

      World is captured by western things brands English, but when China help people be jealous

    • @KnowOver07
      @KnowOver07 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah...because of corruption. The current Cambodian government is borrowing thousand million of dollar from China alone. It's nearly 40% of the total debt. Yeah...Chinese will take over Cambodia someday for some important part in the near future such as Sihaknouk Ville, Poipet, and Phnom Penh - especially the Sihaknouk Ville's Port.

    • @TheCornellJunkie
      @TheCornellJunkie 4 роки тому +18

      Ram Nath lol are you sure they are helping... I think you are delusional. But anyways, I’m not blaming the Chinese... the government opened the door... they tried to do it in Malaysia too luckily another party won the election and closed the door on Chinese investment.

    • @chairmanimao7982
      @chairmanimao7982 4 роки тому +1

      a girl into politics.... that is fishy

  • @MarcKeps
    @MarcKeps 4 роки тому +148

    I will always remember S'ville as a special place, with wonderful people, amazing seafood, fresh air and fresh water. It is so sad to see it "developed" in this way. Do we really need another casino mega-center in this world?

    • @goldbrodidoggo
      @goldbrodidoggo 3 роки тому

      Donald Trump love that, let Obama take over asap the greatest statesman in many decades..

    • @skipperclinton1087
      @skipperclinton1087 3 роки тому +4

      Markkeps: I was there in 03 & 04 and it was serene but a little dodgy at night. Went back in 2017 and all the nice beaches looked like Pattaya and vendors running around at night selling fireworks and backpackers setting them off.

    • @daniellebcooper7160
      @daniellebcooper7160 2 роки тому +1

      @@jeeefthegreat7555 Your comment is typical of someone who has spent little time there.

    • @oli3096
      @oli3096 2 роки тому +4

      My country's beauty was not tailored for your enjoyment. Development brings in better wages and living standards for locals there. If you like it you are free to stay. if not, you can leave

    • @daniellebcooper7160
      @daniellebcooper7160 2 роки тому +1

      @@oli3096 You say 'there'. Do you live in sihanookville yourself?. You're the only Khmer i've heard suggest that it is better now.

  • @dickrasta
    @dickrasta 4 місяці тому

    Why are Indonesian subtitles not available?

  • @catsamazing338
    @catsamazing338 Рік тому +3

    With such selfish human greed. Does this world have a bright future ?

  • @aretardridesmotard6128
    @aretardridesmotard6128 4 роки тому +8

    I remember when that place was tiny, what a change.

  • @niltondossantos9790
    @niltondossantos9790 4 роки тому +6

    Thanks 4 the Journalist to showing about truth.....👍👍👍

  • @dysothearith7631
    @dysothearith7631 2 роки тому +1

    News in Cambodia don't dare to release the truth , Thank you for making this video world Wide

  • @roquetinsixtysix
    @roquetinsixtysix Рік тому +3

    I last visited Sihanoukville in March, 2019. It was pretty much the nightmare depicted here. Too much traffic on terrible, unmaintained and poorly lit roads, half developed skyscraper projects pushing right up to the water's edge, once pristine beaches spoiled, and frustrated, disillusioned locals wondering if they would be able to survive the transformation. Rooms were expensive and difficult to find. Outside of casinos, there seemed to be very little nightlife. Later, I read that the boom had come to a grinding halt and that most of the unfinished projects were simply abandoned. I can't imagine COVID helped. What's going on in Sihanoukville now?

    • @jaeshbalachandran5766
      @jaeshbalachandran5766 Рік тому

      It's actually nothing like that at the moment. Construction is mostly complete and it looks very similar to Hongkong or Taiwan in many areas.
      The city itself seems to basically have been abandoned by the locals and the western expatriates. The entire place is now run and controlled by Chinese mafia.
      No traffic issues, the place was practically dead and a ghost town. Stayed in one of the nicest hotels right on the beach, the entire place was empty. The entire city just seems deserted for the most part. Government services are non existent. You will see packs of stray dogs roaming the streets at night.

    • @roquetinsixtysix
      @roquetinsixtysix Рік тому

      ​@@jaeshbalachandran5766 Thanks for the update. I had pictured a city of abandoned projects with people and animals living among them eking out what meager living they could. A post-apocalyptic hellscape. I'm not sure whether what you describe is better or worse :-(

  • @Fendy1
    @Fendy1 4 роки тому +9

    16:05 "Well, we live in the kingdom of wonder ... and there are many things to be wonder about!" Ha Ha Ha!

  • @MithunOnTheNet
    @MithunOnTheNet 4 роки тому +265

    RIP Cambodia. Blame Hun Sen for your country's takeover.

    • @aboutraore6754
      @aboutraore6754 4 роки тому +29

      Cambodia can only grow with Chinese investment, you think American investors wouldn't do any shady business to exploit the country? The Americans are known for that.

    • @johndowe9251
      @johndowe9251 4 роки тому +20

      @@aboutraore6754 you already sell yourself to chinese easy to see

    • @MinhNguyen-ff6xf
      @MinhNguyen-ff6xf 4 роки тому +11

      Khmer people love Chinese, and this consequence is inevitable.

    • @johndowe9251
      @johndowe9251 4 роки тому +14

      The ONLY person who could possibly say this is Chinese Khmer. Khmer people ,sa'op menuh chun. Not because of racism but because they took over the country, abetted by hun sen the ex Khmer leader, before the destroyed Khmer society could recover and defend itself from outside economic full force invasion.

    • @johndowe9251
      @johndowe9251 4 роки тому +2

      They also ' love' vietnamese which, as a vietnamese I'm sure you know

  • @jonathannoble7657
    @jonathannoble7657 3 роки тому +2

    I’ve been there. The city is in a constant state of construction. Never seen anything like it. Not a pleasant vibe there. The only nice thing are the beaches.

  • @yuliusadam5956
    @yuliusadam5956 3 роки тому +3

    His name... Is Johnny Ferrari 😂 that's a gangsta name

  • @6795michael1
    @6795michael1 4 роки тому +15

    How can construction like that with workers not wearing safety helmet and safety shoes and still said that their project already passed safety regulations.

  • @M4DM4RCH
    @M4DM4RCH 4 роки тому +6

    I hope Al Jazeera can do this in Philippines also...

  • @henyz1210
    @henyz1210 3 роки тому +4

    You can't blame an investor for making your people greedy.
    Instead, the government should be blamed for failing to maintain public order and curb corruption.

  • @ladyfightsoctopus8166
    @ladyfightsoctopus8166 2 роки тому

    Johnny is really gunning for a minor film role with the way he's speaking on camera lol

  • @menghuaguo9380
    @menghuaguo9380 3 роки тому +92

    As a Chinese, it's such a pain to watch these ppl suffering due to these irresponsible and unregulated investments. People are driven by greed these days, underage are forced to work and family are tore apart. When I worked in housing issues in the US, I know the importance of the restriction of investments of forigenger speculators. I think the combodian government also needs to take responsibility. It is such a pain to see the mother live with the kid under that circumstance. And I do hope the government can constructively impose the corresponding laws to protect the people from getting kicked out such as rent ceiling etc. Wish these people all the best. I feel guilty about it, people need to stop making off money or satisfying their material desire by ripping off the local people.

    • @monicasar172
      @monicasar172 Рік тому +7

      The native Cambodian people in Sihanoukville are facing oppression every single days mainly from the Chinese business owners who have lots of money to bribe the local law enforcement.

    • @jonnym4670
      @jonnym4670 Рік тому

      after seeing the way the country has been for the last 60 years it seems like the only time that got a break was 20 years ago for a short period

    • @jiezhao8779
      @jiezhao8779 Рік тому

      same feeling as u , those greed Chinese absorbing the blood from natives , they will be punished by god

    • @challenger516
      @challenger516 Рік тому +1

      @@monicasar172 Where is your source?

  • @muajin
    @muajin 3 роки тому +5

    It was my understanding that Chinese casinos and gambling were prohibited by Cambodia late last year. Even if you go to one of the southern cities, you see huge buildings that never got built. You do still see Chinese hotels though.

  • @Sweet_Dae
    @Sweet_Dae 3 роки тому +2

    This reminds me of POGO here in the Philippines.

  • @Tony-yw8yl
    @Tony-yw8yl 2 роки тому +1

    Opening up the gambling industry in areas with weak public security capacity is a chronic suicide.

  • @MartinSage
    @MartinSage 4 роки тому +4

    I used to go there every year from Saigon to renew my visa. Last time was 2015. It was a sleepy town.

  • @Noelhakim9787
    @Noelhakim9787 4 роки тому +57

    "We're living in the kingdom of wonder, and there are many things to wonder about"😂😂 this guy is a joker

  • @keepitreal5148
    @keepitreal5148 3 роки тому +3

    Sad... corruption in a poverty war torn country and thr citizens suffer from all this collision and exploitation.

  • @solaeterna305
    @solaeterna305 Рік тому +9

    Was on Koh Rong Sanloem a week ago for vacation. Luckily the casino on the island was torn down.
    It also looks like a lot of the construction in and around Sihanoukville has been (at least temporarily) stopped by the impact of Corona on the tourist industry.
    But a ton of Casinos and hotels in the city center still appear to be operating.

  • @streetlight3860
    @streetlight3860 4 роки тому +18

    Going to war with another country costs millions, buying one 3rd world country at a time, Priceless :)

  • @wookie4798
    @wookie4798 4 роки тому +126

    Is that why Government officials all drive Rolls Royce?

    • @justmyopinion1551
      @justmyopinion1551 4 роки тому +23

      Yes and have multiple vila in different province

    • @vindiesel1066
      @vindiesel1066 4 роки тому +7

      That is exactly why......

    • @fidget2020
      @fidget2020 4 роки тому +8

      Well, gaming and land concessions, general graft, illegal logging, rigged and opaque bidding, nepotism, tax dodging, etc etc. There has been money floating around Cambodia long before the Chinese came along.

    • @leongcm1998
      @leongcm1998 4 роки тому +3

      @@fidget2020 They have always been the good place for Chinese dirty company for money laundering, since 80s. That's why they're able hold this position so well. Without these laundering scheme, Cambodia has been long doomed by their own corrupted government.

    • @fidget2020
      @fidget2020 4 роки тому +1

      @@leongcm1998 Sure, and just Chinese!

  • @palijatt
    @palijatt 3 роки тому +2

    its all " Loop Holes" seems very high and happy LOL

  • @suicidebysasquatch4873
    @suicidebysasquatch4873 3 роки тому

    My old holiday spot gone forever

  • @WilliamEstelaLovell
    @WilliamEstelaLovell 3 роки тому +10

    I was literally there only 6 years ago. Stumbled across this video and literally can't believe what i just watched. The place is unrecognisable. And what made me sick was that they are building a casino on Koh Rong Salome... WTF i spent 2 weeks on coconut beach such a gorgeous place! Theres also a traditional village just inland from the casino that im sure will be ruined and corrupted by this poison. And its mental to be a national park... I am honestly in shock...

    • @asdfasdf-rv1wv
      @asdfasdf-rv1wv 3 роки тому +2

      poor western baby cant see their exotic poor village no more, sad sad.

  • @SpikeyOfficial
    @SpikeyOfficial 4 роки тому +58

    "Rows of smiling croupiers" If that's smiling then I want to know what they look like when they are unhappy 😂

    • @bgks1492
      @bgks1492 4 роки тому +1

      Also happening to Philippines

  • @shootingstar87
    @shootingstar87 Рік тому +2

    There is a similar city in Laos. The transaction is only in USD and Yuan. The Laotian currency is not recognised there.

    • @frankcastle7863
      @frankcastle7863 Рік тому +1

      control by the chinese crime syndicate many tourist died or missing in cambodia, myanmar or laos

  • @pranshu3420
    @pranshu3420 3 роки тому +7

    I just watched half of it and can not continue... It's really sad to see all of this :(

    • @tsdz2008
      @tsdz2008 3 роки тому

      Casinos are the malignant tumor and cancer of civilized society!

  • @alleneng
    @alleneng 4 роки тому +112

    Having 4 ads in this video should be just as illegal

    • @OIBAN
      @OIBAN 4 роки тому +7

      switch to brave browser and you won't have any. thx me later

    • @Dignity100
      @Dignity100 4 роки тому +1

      you make an interesting point

    • @YokaiTetsuiga
      @YokaiTetsuiga 4 роки тому +5

      google chrome with adblock and adblock+, easy mode

    • @alleneng
      @alleneng 4 роки тому

      @@YokaiTetsuiga i have that on my pc but on mobile nothing i can do

    • @LochTaupo
      @LochTaupo 4 роки тому +1

      @Rice Cooker - When you open the video on your phone, scroll it all the way to the end, then wait a few seconds and then pull it back to the start and play the video. No ads will play.

  • @cw9249
    @cw9249 3 роки тому +4

    Oh my those casino workers are BEAUTIFUL

    • @oscarchute6040
      @oscarchute6040 3 роки тому +1

      They also look Cambodians. I guess Chinese casinos are hiring locals.

  • @enjoylife8590
    @enjoylife8590 2 роки тому +4

    Isn’t Johnny Ferrari just as guilty for bringing in the technology on online betting?? Wonder how much money he made???

  • @raylee4126
    @raylee4126 3 роки тому +1

    This is an objective and fair report BTW:I'm Chinese

  • @Buttersausage
    @Buttersausage 4 роки тому +9

    Helping take over is what you mean

  • @mhyerjabir1418
    @mhyerjabir1418 4 роки тому +6

    ALSO SAME IN THE PHILIPPINES......

  • @KHMERNATIONALIST
    @KHMERNATIONALIST 3 роки тому +1

    As I am a Cambodian born living abroad very disappointed to what have happened in Sihanouk ville “ the people of this little nation in South East Asia have suffered for decades because of the greed political leaders and ignorant of leadership style “. The Kingdom of wonders ( yes for those government officials who’ve made the profits from these Chinese investors, but for general populations have to confront with their daily financial earnings decrease).
    Financial, metal,physical extortion on poor Cambodian people will affect their livelihood beyond comparison.

  • @tytyhak
    @tytyhak 3 роки тому

    Come to see Sihanouk Ville again!

  • @GagaOulala
    @GagaOulala 4 роки тому +11

    I was there like 6 months ago for a transfer to koh rong islands... This city is an human disaster...

  • @DuyTran-sh3oi
    @DuyTran-sh3oi 4 роки тому +27

    When rich Chinese ppl get interviewed "As long as I can make money I don't care about anything else"
    When Khmer ppl get interviewed "I don't have a place to sleep"
    Solution is so easy but the ppl in power are too greedy to care

    • @lalala1012
      @lalala1012 4 роки тому +6

      Shouldn't the government be responsible for that instead of investor? And shouldn't it be the responsibility of Cambodian gov to set investment guidelines? it was definitely the gov choice allow resort to be build! And # of tourist visiting Cambodia to drive the economy. Clearly investors invest for 1 agenda. That is profit! Isn't this what the western companies has been doing or you want CN to FOC build public housing. The west would definitely never do anything that like that. Look at cadbury child labour, children were not able to go school and have to work overwhelming hours a day and only paid pittance! Where cadbury made millions of $ in 50 over countries.
      SG is facing high property prices can we blame it to the developer? And the number of westerns companies in sg for that? Clearly Cambodia doesn't have that $ needed to construct public housing and can only resort in selling their soil/sands to 1s world country I know who is the clientele. Why don't US just loan to Cambodia, oh wait, US needs to consult Chinese debt collector first. Anyway UN may step in to help? No? Shouldn't VN be the one helping Cambodia since VN invaded Cambodia holding it as territory of VN from 70s to 90s. Nguyen it's your country that destroyed them...

    • @somponesakdy826
      @somponesakdy826 4 роки тому +3

      Communist government is corrupted everywhere from original old Soviet to Vietnam Laos and so on. Why are they still survive? Because they are Asian; most educated European countries they learned faster.

    • @lalala1012
      @lalala1012 4 роки тому +1

      @@somponesakdy826 well look at US when hilarious clink was in charge, billions of $ when missing without a trace no investigation just silenced! Corruptions are everywhere not just the communist but so called Republican Democrat or whatsoever. Chiang Kai-shek was a extremely corrupted man tgt w his team of shenanigans. He ain't communist! Look at south Korea, the # of corruption scandal.. majority of the members of United Nation are the hypocrite, when CN try to persecute those corrupted official, UN grant asylum to the culprit. But nobody grant or save Julian Assange and Edward Snowden (except Russia)..

    • @DuyTran-sh3oi
      @DuyTran-sh3oi 4 роки тому

      @@lalala1012 you seem offended for some reason, obviously the government needs to put things in place to protect it's citizen, but the greed is evident.
      You can't take money to your grave, no one is going to remember a rich man/woman, not even his/her sugar baby.

    • @lalala1012
      @lalala1012 4 роки тому +2

      @@DuyTran-sh3oi dont be offended I'm just stating facts that are always omitted. The reason the west sponsored media to infiltrate CN n the world is to broadcast their sponsored narratives and stymieing CN Media. Look at what how the west labelled Tik Tok, the #1 most D/L apps in the world, which is developed by a Chinese company. Contrary to US Google filter n control of search results, FB obtain of sensitive personal data, Instagram ownership of subscriber photos, Apple siri voice recognition are all sent to US data base.
      I never noticed this until HK protest exist. How the western sponsored media uses oxymoron lambasting narratives towards CN.
      I'm not against western people but just producing facts here if what I know.

  • @akniznik
    @akniznik 2 роки тому +1

    in 2013 i watched a hotel being built near the beach in Sihanoukville. The workers operating jackhammers and other heavy equipment were wearing flip flops and straw hats.

  • @haichu2493
    @haichu2493 3 роки тому

    I really miss the old Sihanouk ville and Remebered all the memories in my childhood it sad exactly cause it being so called ***developed***

  • @sonicap7810
    @sonicap7810 4 роки тому +54

    I cry for my country.

    • @juergennoser2147
      @juergennoser2147 3 роки тому +1

      I cry with you.i been there many times.spend great times

    • @edenguo4698
      @edenguo4698 3 роки тому +2

      Pick up the bowl and finish eating, put down the bowl and scold your mother

    • @Atreyx
      @Atreyx Рік тому

      Yeah Cambodia government suck cuz it allow human trafficking lmao

    • @robertyu8306
      @robertyu8306 Рік тому +2

      i am sorry对不起

    • @wonderfulchina1344
      @wonderfulchina1344 Рік тому

      @@robertyu8306 关你屁事

  • @48hd38
    @48hd38 4 роки тому +56

    Every where the gambling industry has plagued the locals !!

    • @fidget2020
      @fidget2020 4 роки тому +1

      K4 raja babu It's not the gaming industry to blame for the kind of mess we see in Sihanoukville, it’s the political and business leaders that not only allow it, but encourage it. And it's not everywhere. I don't think too many locals in Singapore for example have suffered..? It's how the gaming industries are regulated is the question.

    • @Opticoolos
      @Opticoolos 4 роки тому +1

      Yes, agree, for instance, atlantic city in usa,

    • @lorybun986
      @lorybun986 4 роки тому

      K4 raja babu true i agreed

  • @NishikiMiyata
    @NishikiMiyata Рік тому +4

    look what the Chinese have done to these beautiful areas like this. real shame.

  • @answerback-films655
    @answerback-films655 3 роки тому +1

    Legend has it Johny Ferrari will be found in some seedy bordello 20 years from now...drunk, alone and happy...muttering "its all loop holes" to the passed out drunk next to him.

    • @mikehunt8823
      @mikehunt8823 3 роки тому

      He made my skin crawl, I don't like to wish harm on anyone but I'd make an exception for Johny ferrari, the world would be a better place without people like him in it.