By Andrew Haffner
South East Asia Globe
January 22, 2020
Foreign investors rode a hot streak in Sihanoukville until the gambling game collapsed last summer. Now, with the boomtown at risk of going bust and the city decaying around them, long-term residents, local businesses and construction workers are picking up the pieces
South East Asia Globe
January 22, 2020
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| Photo by Chea Sophal |
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| Photo by Chea Sophal, 2019 |
Foreign investors rode a hot streak in Sihanoukville until the gambling game collapsed last summer. Now, with the boomtown at risk of going bust and the city decaying around them, long-term residents, local businesses and construction workers are picking up the pieces
Long white banners hang from the green
construction netting erected around the shell of an unfinished building.
Mandarin characters run down their length, carrying a message for any
reader who might pass through the Golden Lions roundabout at the heart
of Cambodia’s southern port city of Sihanoukville.
“We have already stopped working for two
months, but we have not received compensation for four months of work,”
reads the message, apparently written by Chinese construction workers.
“Please come to help us. [We believe] that the Cambodian and Chinese
governments will support us. Please help decide the future for us
workers, and our salary, the wages we earned through sweat and blood,
and let us go home.”
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