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zu cambodia: aus der neuen "weekly column" von stickmanbangkok.com:
"Across the border, the Chinese are investing heavily in Cambodia. Skyscrapers are popping up all over Phnom Penh and the cityscape is changing. Some say parts of the south coast of Cambodia feels more like mainland China. The southern town of Sihanoukville used to be popular with Western expats but many have been driven out as the Chinese buy up large, some said to have paid well over the odds for property. Westerners who had been renting are losing their place to stay mid-lease as the property they live in is sold. So much land has been sold to Chinese and so much accommodation has been lost as buildings are redeveloped that there has been a migration of expats east to the town of Kampot. And guess who has followed them? The Chinese. And guess what they are doing? Buying up land. And guess what the upshot of that is? Some expats who lost their apartments in Sihanoukville which was bought by Chinese have had the very same thing happen to them in Kampot. And it’s not just southern Cambodia where the Chinese are found in greater numbers. Chinese men have discovered the Phnom Penh hostess bars and more of them are partying in the capital. South-East Asia’s expat haunts are changing."
"Across the border, the Chinese are investing heavily in Cambodia. Skyscrapers are popping up all over Phnom Penh and the cityscape is changing. Some say parts of the south coast of Cambodia feels more like mainland China. The southern town of Sihanoukville used to be popular with Western expats but many have been driven out as the Chinese buy up large, some said to have paid well over the odds for property. Westerners who had been renting are losing their place to stay mid-lease as the property they live in is sold. So much land has been sold to Chinese and so much accommodation has been lost as buildings are redeveloped that there has been a migration of expats east to the town of Kampot. And guess who has followed them? The Chinese. And guess what they are doing? Buying up land. And guess what the upshot of that is? Some expats who lost their apartments in Sihanoukville which was bought by Chinese have had the very same thing happen to them in Kampot. And it’s not just southern Cambodia where the Chinese are found in greater numbers. Chinese men have discovered the Phnom Penh hostess bars and more of them are partying in the capital. South-East Asia’s expat haunts are changing."
