Cambodia's Casino Boom Town, Created By Chinese Money | The New Silk Road | CNA Insider
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2018
- Chinese money has transformed the once-sleepy backpacker destination of Sihanoukville, Cambodia into a gambling resort hub with 30 casinos, and 70 more being built. It's touted as the "New Macau".
But all that new wealth is eluding many local Cambodian businesses - which are being shunted aside.
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its not only happening in Cambodia.. huge luxury casino hotels here in the Philippines are flooded by Chinese..
they treat Filipino people same way as Cambodian people
Wah Tu Sy Okada manila is good tho.
Wah Tu Sy Yeah
chinese in the Philippines is nothing New!!!
smart guy20 The Chinese rule Philippine economy for decades. You worship Jollibee and you think the bee is Filipino.
I'm Cambodian. I'm not gonna lie, I can't afford to go there anymore. accommodation price has surged so high over the years that I can no longer go there to relax. If I want to, I rather fly to Thailand and the Philippines.
kyle009 00 That Cambodia, are you scaring to your country ? Sea plays a very important role in country economic bomb. No hope for Cambodia! Good luck keep leaving country! Fight back dude. Most of Cambodian lazy, chinese people they work very hard. What is the weaknesses of Cambodian. Do you know ? I assume you don’t know. First lazy, drinking, not well-educated I speak the truth. You try to visit to Thailand and Philippine instead....
I can + the question is how to fight back? The government is supporting the Chinese business which is why prices changed. If we protest, we will certainly get shot down by the police. I think it’s already too late now because during China early business there were no uprising.
kind of sad to hear this. But doesn't Cambodia have other nice beach towns?
@@stoneruler we do but Sihanoukville is more popular
its everywhere the chinese come on land. look at montreal canada or australia, or any other place.
A Chinese-Philippines scholar, Amy Chua already written this case in her book "World on Fire ". Malaysia and Singapore had mostly filled the income gaps between the races.
Great video nice job
U know he’s Singaporean when he pronounces it as gahmen
He looks like one too spart from the accent
Just by his English accent you can already tell his Singaporean.
@@hongkongchief1879 u
I like Vietnam. The Chinese wouldn't dare to trample their nation like that. Actually, they did try up North in border town like Quang Ninh where there were $0 tours in which the Chinese tourists are brought to Chinese shops (hoding behind Vietnamese names) only. Knowing this, the Vietnamese govetnment got rid them rightaway. The Vietnamese are very vigilant about that.
You know nothing about Vietnam and Chinese relations.
@@davidmoss2576 What do you know?
Have a lot of casinos in 🇰🇭 such as Preah Sihanouk, Poi Pet, Bavet, Corey Thom...
that is very bad for Cambodian people ,no business, cause poverties
Jinbei is my favorite casino.
Now a days,we still can easily see many cambodian gamblers inside cambodia casinos,the enforcement and security departments must be seriously look into this matter!
Well... I've planned a trip to Kampot highlands (Essentially the equivalent of genting highlands) and looks like I'm stopping by in Sihanoukville just to go see the stuff there.
Stay safe in the water, the sewage gets pumped directly into the sea.
I have been to there last year. To be honest, i really don't like the place and I would never go there again. I rather visit KEP and much cheaper n cleaner. Chinese must learn how to balance and protect the ecosystem of environment instead of greedily seeking profit from their investment.
If the regulations are in place and proper enforcement carried out, this problem should not come to light.
Made in China. The Chinese has only one thing in mind... "MONEY".
HOW TO MAXIMISE PROFITS
HOW TO CREATE INFRUSTRUCTURE
HOW TO BEAT THEIR COMPETITORS
If there's pollution, damaged ecosystem that's not on the sole businesses, it's for the government to deal with.
Look at China's major cities, Massive highways all blocked up, over populated, high disprecrencies between the rich and poor.
I feel so bad for the restaurant owner that now has no one coming to eat at his place. 😭😭😭
Asian Guy How about you go there first idiot! Or you’re pulling that out of your shitty asshole 😂
Tell him to change the menu and turn it into a Chinese restaurant, failure is also an opportunity if you know how to adapt!
Most of the locals restaurants are shit anyway. They served bad food for years and didn't give a shit about customers. Karma maybe?
Sihanoukville is also a port and a beach resort.
More casino =more crime
Well state
las vagas?
..." Chinese always go to the Chinese restaurants..." and ironically before the came..they said they wanted to help local communities..hmmm
Moving those budget westerners out can boost Cambodia's economy
Cambodia will soon be like Venezuela
As long as no free lunch its never happened.
how? these investments from private sector
The venuzuelan bullshit is the socialism...making people so dull and lazy....as long as the people working 8 hours per day...everything will be ok...trust me.
tengku h Working without a goal will lead to higher suicide rate. Just saying working 8 hours a day will not be a good idea. Full socialism will never work but a capitalist with some tinge of socialism can move
Yeah. I am going there.
The casino gambling business is getting more competitive and challenging with each passing day. Many Singaporeans are gambling for a living and enjoy the mobility via land transport to move between casinos in Malaysia, Vietnam, Kampuchea and now Laos. And, they are giving Singapore a missed or boycott due to entry levy.
Do they have poker at this casino? Any in Cambodia?
Lim i met him in le macau casino b4 two years ago
Tui mê chơi mấy cái này mà thua quá thua. Đang chơi bên nhà cái mới Asia99 không biết thế nào.
Chinese work from 9am to 9pm and 6 days a week, we call 996, so it's hard for local people
Cambodia can sign a CECA agreement, the locals will be happy with it.
As usual, good for China and the Chinese, terrible for the locals and the host country. Exploitation at its finest. I worry for my own country, the Philippines. Seems like Boracay is next.
Your not wrong..
If the Chinese doesn't invest there... where are the other jobs created, as that GM said.. at least set backs of 5-10 years, if a city grows, cost of living will go up, give something, take something. All the money invested in the Cambodia's infrastructure benefits the local too.
Already is. Boracay influx with Chinese
is this new to you? the rich exploit the poor, the strong exploit the weak, the genius exploit the fools. it happens everyday, everywhere.
Perhaps, BoomTown is not good, prefers China should do what the Americans had done to Cambodia or the Philippines by bombing the country with dirty long-lasting Chemical Orange into the stone age and colonizing the Philippines, including slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Filipino natives in the Filipino-American War?
We stop going to Chinaville for a few years now. It's very sad but true!
សួស្ដីតើអ្នកត្រូវការបុគ្គលិកដែរឬទេHello, do you need staff?
5 years after, it is a ghost town with 500 empty buildings😢
Anyone here to discuss practical even money bets ( roulette / sicbo / baccarat ) strategy ?
ill go count cards. everytime a new casino opens ill count the cards and earn the max. once my profile is over.
Yup, I feel bad to the local restaurant owners. He's right about the Chinese only at Chinese restaurants supporting oneself. Beside, they come and dive up the cost of living and soon all the local will be force to move out so nothing left but the Chinese people living in Cambodian. Same thing will happen to their boarder neighbor Lao too. LOL
is it the same gambling town project that dr Farish Noor had documented in Laos?
A money laundry paradise basically
I used to love this 1 time pristine beach town. Now its a cess pool over run by chinese who have brought lots of crime ....extortion kidnapping shootings. They really messed up my paradise
You called a shit hole place paradise?
cmon dude, chinese brought crimes in? fuck off!
Western poor backpackers hardly bring development to the local area. Poverty there is not a paradise for you as a sense of superiority.
@packer9 what wrong with them?? they need to have sex somehow....
Blame the Khmer gangsters who targeting rich Chinese tourists, not the Chinese themselves.
Isn't they who brought the boom of Cambodian tourism industry to all time high and fatten up Cambodian foreign exchange reserves...?
Cool 😎 go to Macau
Foregone conclusion. New mantra, take over in the form of business or invest heavily and lend money so that debt cannot be repaid forever.
Cambodia didn’t really make profit of it . But Sihanoukvillie has grown in a ways. So it’s good and bad
An entertainment hub in SEA. Damn, who would have thought that? The Cambodian gov't better make good use of the tax revenues and FDI.
Now open this casino, Loiast buying How much? USD please
I don’t know how to feel about this. Is it right to say they traded their cultural identity for money?
Chinese tourists always supporting their Chinese business like that which is normal. I am only a few Khmer that I've known who continues to support Khmer local businesses wherever I go. Khmer needs to learn to how to support their own kind because only us that Khmer can grow.
Don't u think they are selfish? I think they are.
If you think of this game life is going to be torture if Chinese tourists had family friends they will take them to a restaurant had some khmer foods if not people should be free to eat what ever foods they like and shop and buy things that please their eyes, you are very closed mind person.
Thailand ,Singapore, Malaysia, have most Chinese live.
Pls speak with brains. The Chinese referred in the video is China Chinese. Dont relate sgrean to them. My race is Chinese, my culture is from sg, my nationality is sg.
Yes, local guys should instead of waiting start selling seafood or barbecue. Know what the chinese tourists want. No only Chinese food which the can get back home but some local dishes.
Won’t be doin to well now will it..??
Once again CNA has failed to ask the hard questions.
Chinese help each other.
Chinese rich (billionaire) they started make a business not only in Sihanoukville they spread all over around the world
0:54 Sihanouk is not pronounced Sihanouk it’s pronounce sreyhanouk
I am a retailer myself, market change always.
And as a service frontliner we have to change.
Maybe the restaurant owner just need to spend USD50-100 for a menu with multiple languages(khmer, english and mandarin),
And another USD50-100 for a mandarin signboard.
I believe if he does this, his business will be much better than before since the number of tourist there grown multiple times.
Not all chinese can read english.
I am here now. Dirty waste of time town. Beach's in places are better. But it is not a good place to vacation.
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Then those local restaurants need to learn how to cook some Chinese food if they wanna stays in the game right...?
Adapt is a form of survival no...?
Agree...omg I eat at Sihanoukville beach curry chicken tasted awful no flavor what so ever $4 fifty cents and pad thai is bad some people just can't cook they need to watch you tube how to cook. My pc got wet some keys is not working
Those chinese are rich or upper middle class tourists, they will eat in their hotels or go to fancy restaurants, most won't go to a small local restaurant.
transform sihanoukville into wht ?
Wow, Cambodia has fallen into a Chinese deadly trap. Their people will pay dearly. LOL
Sad for combodia from Vietnam
Gambler rather not eat. They saving their money for gambling. I feel so bad for those small business people, It is so wrong to treat your own people that way.
Cambodia's leader said : Chinese come to CAMBODIA it will help local people to create more profits from them that was only expectations from Cambodian.
But reality they come to CAMBODIA they open store not only that and also took a job from Cambodian like become a tuk tuk driver , or anything else not only that province , at airport location has a lot of them , kompong sam , and Phnom Penh too. Especially they make a whole places that they live become worse and worse without every single day , and they did respect us as the owner too .
i think so, they very Rude !!!
Don't know how hun sen thinks about this now
Maybe he still happy with quick money
Why their not build the casino in there home country. Chinese dumped
Chinese tourist go and visit my country Philippines it's more fun
Wows our beautiful state and beaches now own by Chinese how sad. Cambodian government will turn this state to be Makeo
"So the income goes all back to the Chinese people." Some real truth about Chinese people.
The Chinese businesses do pay taxes and then some to keep their business open. It's just that the government does not share this wealth with the locals.
Las Vegas Asia!!
Read the sign outside a casino , it says no westerners
@vinct choon
Let me take her to Europe..
I promise you, she will only be working in the restaurant.
We do need staff, she would really fit in here by us.
OK, somchai, let me know later.
Say hi to mom.
Now now, no reason to get personal.
I want the very best for all of you.
Listen, we could all meet at the old marked bridge in Siem Reap.
Then I can take mom and her over to the Coffeeshop behind Hardrock Café, maby my friend has a job for mom, scaring the dogs away.
I miss the three of you, I think we make a great team.
Actually, I'm really impressed whit the way you wash my cars.
You really put effort into it, lots of hard work and technique, spotless 💪👍❤️🤗👏
Thank you, Somchai.
i feel i'm in the minority but i'm very happy there's a casino hot spot in a relatively cheap area.
Macau is expensive so is Vegas so this seems like a happy medium. apartments for 200 dollars per month and cheap food
...pretty good place for a poker player
Have you ever been there doggy boy?
In Bavet Town
Funny, who says that people in Cambodia can't open Chinese restaurants in Cambodia?
SO funny, So the owners of Chinese restaurants must be Chinese?
It's clearly mentioned that Chinese businessmen are opening up shops, while local Cambodian stores are being forced to close.
bandit298
It happens everywhere in the world. American fast foods opened in China, and guess how many local Chinese food restaurants were going to close?
bandit298
So why you don't mention those people working in the casinos and hotels because of Chinese helping them?
Those local business refuse to sell or rent their shops for triple or quadruple the amount in which they will never receive in their entire life. Then they complain. This is the REAL STORY.
Sin city
These local people doesn't know how to development of the town, Chinese has give them better living style and luxurious touch to their life, remember, when their wasn't Trump Towers in US people didn't know or heard about it, but later people learnt from Trump life and style, and made him president when they feel he can make a real change, think about it, when poor backpackers were here land wasn't having any values, and see how, a poor man now can sale his shop or house in couple of million $, try to understand, the One Road & One Belt or Silk Route is changing people life, its game changer program from China to the world, its all about sharing and growth of business and life and style, when American do it , its called progress when Chinese do it same, they called it, destroying life, what nonsense, if the restaurant man improve his restaurant quality and and maintain standard he will have more customers, bcx Cambodian earning handsome amount from Chinese, Chinese are paying 1000 times extra then locals. Now please stop it. Totally disagree with this misguided report. Talk with logic not with stupidity, What has American given to the world we all knew it very well.
Cambodia :(
Hope it gets well over there.
Good for the Chinese, very bad for the poor Cambodians
This would increase the levels of crime such as corruption in cambodia and i don't want this to happen
Chinese don't just eat chinese food. They will try foreign food as well, provided the food is nice and reasonably priced. Just like any tourist, this is human nature.
China investment is about trade, infrastructures like roads and bridges etc, not casinos. It is the Cambodia government rights to accept or reject the financing, nobody forced them to agree. Cambodia government has the rights and full control of the country's future, not China.
The restaurant owner should find ways like get chinese to cook for him, changed the local food styles to suit foreigners taste buds and not sit there moaning.
Nothing stays unchanged, if you accept and see the changes as an opportunity, you will survive.
hi i have here
$ 1
New sukhumvit Nana and soi cowboy
Dragonnote8fly Hight Not like that
The end....
Haha How can cheap backpacking tourists compete? They're on a string budget. So shouldn't the locals be happy?
Nothing to do in cambodia the unique casino for gambling.
Now in 2022, this city is developed well and we are Cambodian really satisficed with it. We no need western countries to develop our country.
I rather go to Malaysia Genting Casino.
Another casino town. Poipet. Cambodia
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The Cambodian government is laughing their way to the bank from all the taxes levied on the casino operators. The bulk of the profits go into Chinese operators which in turn goes to China. Come on Cambodia, China is not stupid. They are one of the most unscrupulous businessmen in the world. They target most of the 3rd world countries like Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam etc... Guess all these 'beggar' countries need the money. So, its a win win situation but more win to China of course. If not control stringently, this casino and gambling establishment set up will caused lots of social problems later for the Cambodian government and the people of Sihanokville.
And who gives the permit to the Chinese to open casinos there? Cambodian themselves.
NO gambling any Place....in the World !.....You will be Homeless to Soon for your life ?
Where does the Chinese come up with a terrible thing to come along and affection for the people around the world?
Too negative wtf
Tourist remeber !..Dont Gambling here ? Your wallet will be Broken, Never WIN ?
Once a paradise and now it's Macau. Shame on Hun Sen and the Chinese.
Chinese creat a place to laundering their ill gotten wealth
Cambodian should patronize their food as the chinese did just like here in the philippines only chinese eat at chinese restaurant
so sad Kh
C’est devenu n’importe quoi Sihanoukville depuis que les Chinois se sont installés là bas.
the local government need money n not control abt it so who suffer, they should try protesting, as we all know China investment everywhere in the world they get benefit from it
That guy at the end who lost business due to no western tourists going to Cambodia is so racist when he claims Chinese people only eat at Chinese restaurants because they want to support their own kind. Me being Chinese myself, I know this is BS, because as a Chinese, Chinese food to me is comfort food, theres no hidden agenda or discrimination with our taste in food.
😞😞😞😞🤧
This is the only thing good about covid. There's no one who would come to these places but the locals are also affected
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Great work Khmer Government. Best place to laundry Chinese corrupt money.
keep barking stupid loser , you feel better
Cambodia will be ruled by me in 6 short years when all Sihanoukville casinos are completely built.
Colonization by economy
Chinese money war