Zeke Faux

I found a blog from like a kind of confused tourist who went on like a very detailed drive around Chinatown.

In recent years, there was a huge casino development boom fueled by Chinese money. It's now got like 100 casinos. Another casino. Is that another casino? Yeah, it is. Casino. But Sihanoukville fell on hard times. Like, the skyline is completely unfinished. There's literally, like, thousands of unfinished buildings around Sihanoukville because this development boom just, like, stopped.

In recent years, there was a huge casino development boom fueled by Chinese money. It's now got like 100 casinos. Another casino. Is that another casino? Yeah, it is. Casino. But Sihanoukville fell on hard times. Like, the skyline is completely unfinished. There's literally, like, thousands of unfinished buildings around Sihanoukville because this development boom just, like, stopped.

In recent years, there was a huge casino development boom fueled by Chinese money. It's now got like 100 casinos. Another casino. Is that another casino? Yeah, it is. Casino. But Sihanoukville fell on hard times. Like, the skyline is completely unfinished. There's literally, like, thousands of unfinished buildings around Sihanoukville because this development boom just, like, stopped.

And the casinos, the ones that were built, had no customers coming in. Right. So a lot of these casinos turned to scamming.

And the casinos, the ones that were built, had no customers coming in. Right. So a lot of these casinos turned to scamming.

And the casinos, the ones that were built, had no customers coming in. Right. So a lot of these casinos turned to scamming.

On the ground floor, a lot of the buildings have restaurants, barbershops, bodegas, all with signage in Chinese because the intended customer is not Cambodian. But the stores are divided by metal bars in the middle because the workers might be going to the restaurant from inside the courtyard, and they don't want them going out to the street to escape.

On the ground floor, a lot of the buildings have restaurants, barbershops, bodegas, all with signage in Chinese because the intended customer is not Cambodian. But the stores are divided by metal bars in the middle because the workers might be going to the restaurant from inside the courtyard, and they don't want them going out to the street to escape.

On the ground floor, a lot of the buildings have restaurants, barbershops, bodegas, all with signage in Chinese because the intended customer is not Cambodian. But the stores are divided by metal bars in the middle because the workers might be going to the restaurant from inside the courtyard, and they don't want them going out to the street to escape.

Yeah. And there's a police station right at the entrance to Chinatown. And the reports are like the police don't do anything. A lot of the local news, they're interviewing the people who like stand on the street and sell cigarettes or the guy who runs the bodega or whatever. People who aren't involved, but who just live in the neighborhood.

Yeah. And there's a police station right at the entrance to Chinatown. And the reports are like the police don't do anything. A lot of the local news, they're interviewing the people who like stand on the street and sell cigarettes or the guy who runs the bodega or whatever. People who aren't involved, but who just live in the neighborhood.

Yeah. And there's a police station right at the entrance to Chinatown. And the reports are like the police don't do anything. A lot of the local news, they're interviewing the people who like stand on the street and sell cigarettes or the guy who runs the bodega or whatever. People who aren't involved, but who just live in the neighborhood.

And that one of these people said, if an ambulance doesn't come every week, it's a wonder. Yeah.

And that one of these people said, if an ambulance doesn't come every week, it's a wonder. Yeah.

And that one of these people said, if an ambulance doesn't come every week, it's a wonder. Yeah.

They'd been writing these exposés about Sihanoukville. And in Chinatown, there were just like 40 or 50 buildings where, according to what they were saying, thousands of people were trapped there and forced to run these scams.

They'd been writing these exposés about Sihanoukville. And in Chinatown, there were just like 40 or 50 buildings where, according to what they were saying, thousands of people were trapped there and forced to run these scams.

They'd been writing these exposés about Sihanoukville. And in Chinatown, there were just like 40 or 50 buildings where, according to what they were saying, thousands of people were trapped there and forced to run these scams.

Some of them might sort of know they're getting into scamming, but they don't realize that they will be stuck there or that they'll be abused.