I lived there 2014-2017 saw all the businessmen come in, literally driving round in minivans/trucks looking for land. Anyway had some of my best years there and best friends. It was my home and a feeling I can't describe. peace to all the locals who made me feel so comfortable and accepted I truly miss those days.
@jeannettestuckelschwaiger5071
5 жыл бұрын
I was there in 1962 with school. I was 15, in love silently, remembered still all the excitement. teeners school boys n girls on the white sandbeach of kampong som. there were trees almost in the clear sea water..wondefully beautiful. Magic. Not a hôtel along the coast then. I don't have the courage to go back now.
@kimnganmai5782
5 жыл бұрын
My first time to Sihanoukville was feb 2017 and I’ve fallen in love with the beach in otres, the nature, the clean, the sandy. And I couldn’t stop coming back 6 times during 2 years. It seem like cutting me because of the beach keep changing over and over again. There no more bars around coastal , there no more otres market, there no more tourists, only Chinese and many casinos and high building
@chavratdubose
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking time to make this video. I haven't been back home in a while. Good to see this
@chriswheeler174
5 жыл бұрын
OMG What have they done to this place I feel like crying...Last time I was here was back in 2005 hardly no one there roads like a minefield and not one A.T.M machine....beautiful place now ruined...so sad.
@georgemcnaughton7839
5 жыл бұрын
When the global financial winter arrives . The Cambodians can take back what is theirs. History always repeats and the weakest suffer the most always.
@roydudley4542
5 жыл бұрын
Sihanukville was the best beach location in Cambodia with so much potential unfortunately it has been totally ruined by the Chinese invasion of construction worker prisoners allowed to work there One day this will bite the Cambodian government in the arse for sure😭
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
Not sure that Sihanoukville beaches were ever "the best" as evidenced by the murky waters I bathed in during my first visit in Sep 2011. However, you are right in that it's potential, as a sort of Phuket-Pattaya (or perhaps Ko Samui?) alternative has been lost now that it has decided to become an ugly, poorer version of Macau. Interesting, are the workers really Chinese prisoners? I'm confused why they would be allowed to work overseas, if they're a threat to the state. Also, why aren't more locals being hired? Cambodians are cheaper than Chinese...makes no sense at all, except for the language issue. Cambodia needs to implement Thai style laws governing the ratio of foreign to local workers - 4 locals to 1 foreigner.
@melluzi
5 жыл бұрын
I was there exactly the same time. I am now wondering - what will happen when Cambodian authorities will realize some day they don't have any control over the city any more and now they should stop Chinese expansion? I am afraid they already lost any control on what is happening there. Literally, they have sold this unique place. The problem is that corrupted politicians will go some day, but local people will always have to live with it. Just a quick reminder, foreigners can't own the land by Cambodian law. How the hell is this all even possible?
@hansvandijk9787
5 жыл бұрын
It won't bother them, as long as the funds keep flowing in.
@melluzi
5 жыл бұрын
@@hansvandijk9787 And then back out. For some reason I don't believe Chinese are there 'cause they care about prosperity of Cambodia.
@gerylsteve3079
5 жыл бұрын
They(all foregners) can buy land or houses if you start a business compagny with at least 2 individuals or shareholders, and it's very easy. Those chinese land grabbers busy with destroying, manipulating, dominating, occupying and investing are all operating with their compagny's and using the Khmers for cleaning up their shit and force them without respect to do the heavy unsafe work. What is left is in interest of those maffia-chinese, and all the nice previous places that the westerns enjoyed are gone......all because of the money.....sooooo sad!
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
@@gerylsteve3079 really? Can't be that easy? More than likely they are being granted 99-year leases or something, which is almost the same thing but not quite outright ownership. Cambodia can't seriously be so stupid as to allow foreign ownership of land through company holdings...if they are then in 10 years the whole country will be owned by foreigners, mostly Chinese.
@mickstrange1404
5 жыл бұрын
I was in Sihanoukville a few years ago, and I loved the place. It was idyllic. It saddens me to see what has happened. The Chinese are in the process of destroying it!! I wonder how much money changed hands for this to happen!!!!!!!!!!
@Smojito
5 жыл бұрын
this makes me avoid sihanoukville :( i hope not everywhere in Cambodia
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
Not so far, but there are signs that the Chinese are invading other parts of the country too. There is a development near Sihanoukville, in the jungles of neighboring Koh Kong province, which is also funded by the Chinese. A deep sea port and reportedly an airport with a runway that looks much longer than is necessary for civilian purposes, along with casinos and an integrated resort are all under construction. The latest news is that the contractor is in financial difficulty so construction works have been suspended for now, but it shows what greed and corruption can do to a place. Kampot, Kep and most of the rest of Cambodia still remain Khmer, for now. Siem Reap has many Chinese tourists, but it has even more tourists from all over the world, so it's safe for now, especially since casinos are not allowed there. Phnom Penh has Chinese capital coming in, but as the capital it's still OK though traffic is becoming very bad. There are Chinese who live in Cambodian border towns with Vietnam, including Trapeang Khlong and Bavet, who work illegally placing bets at casinos for Chinese gamblers back home. This can be evidenced by the presence of a couple of Chinese restaurants (with Chinese only writing) located in these towns, right next to the Vietnamese border. I guess if things go south they can just flee to Vietnam.
@inaspin4311
5 жыл бұрын
It was Mu Sochua that recently said, "Cambodia has the coast" "Cambodia has minerals" "Cambodia has forests" "Cambodia has a dictator" "You can buy it all" Have fun
@camihvvbl4979
5 жыл бұрын
She’s an idiot
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
@@camihvvbl4979 she's right. Cambodia is governed by a dictator who has been in power for 33 years. He has done nothing for the Cambodian people except enrich himself. Cambodia is still dirty, the people are poor, the infrastructure is horrendous, he has been selling valuable minerals and timber from the jungles to foreigners (mainly Chinese, Thais and Vietnamese) and now he's selling the whole country, bit by bit, to the Chinese. Sihanoukville is the perfect example of this, but not only there. Even at the Koh Kong border crossing with Thailand there is a Chinese supermarket, with signs only in Chinese (which locals can't read), how can this be allowed? In Thailand and Vietnam, foreigners can't just open up a shop and not employ locals. They can't put up a foreign language sign without the local language accompanying it. Cambodia urgently needs to reform it's laws before it is fully gobbled up by China.
@camihvvbl4979
5 жыл бұрын
The Rock what and why you still doing here? You complained about dirt, poor, bad infrastructure and everything. I tell you only China invest all those area. From factory, manufacture, and infrastructure, business and trade. This is what my country needs. And you have problems with that? That is your problem and I 100 percent don’t care. And don’t act like you are smart and know what is best for my country than me.
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
@@camihvvbl4979 Nonsense. You don't have any idea what you are talking about. China wants to take over your country, they don't give a shit about Cambodians. In fact, Chinese people think Cambodians are lazy and stupid. China invests in these areas not because they care about developing your country but because they see an opportunity to make money. Grow up and stop being so naive. And so far, China or not I see little evidence of improvements in infrastructure in Cambodia compared to a few years ago. Roads are still awful and haven't improved a whole lot. The train service between Phnom penh and Bangkok is finally starting, which is a good thing, but by comparison with Thailand or Vietnam, Cambodia is way, way behind.
@phillipbirt2344
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for making this video. I've spent many happy months in Sihanoukville in recent years. Never going back. Hope the Cambodians don't regret letting the Chinese annexe Sihanoukville in order to make Macau Mark Two with Chinese labour. I go to Cambodia to enjoy their culture and their way of life not an imported capitalist ideology. I can't see many local Cambodians spending their money in Chinese casinos! There are 55 casinos in the Sihanoukville area! Sad situation that cannot be reversed.
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
Apparently Khmers are not allowed to gamble (although rich Khmers can probably still get in) while in some of the dingier casinos, even westerners are not really welcome. Jin Bei casino, owned by a Singaporean is probably where most of the few westerners who still visit Sihanoukville will go, being Singaporean they can't exclude people on the basis of nationality or race.
@baaderandreas9
5 жыл бұрын
I was there im Jan & Feb of 2019.... it´s all getting bigger and bigger and scyscrapers growing like jungle, much more and faster than hairwashing, these vid from Oct 2018 is older than vids can be produced as ..... changing rapidley every day. Kingdom of Wonder
@bernardveillon833
5 жыл бұрын
AND WHAT ABOUT PRESERVED ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL THE PLANET ????????
@jimhill5996
5 жыл бұрын
I made a trip to Sihanoukville on Tuesday and drove around the town a bit. This video sums up the current state of things. Dubai was similar 20 years ago
@supremekhmer6596
5 жыл бұрын
For Sihanoukville. It will only take maybe 10 years for it to become a global city.
@jimhill5996
5 жыл бұрын
... maybe!
@samchhin8
5 жыл бұрын
Not Dubai lol but a better city in infrastructure and quality of life and also the economics hub of cambodia (10years is enough)
@highsky5888
5 жыл бұрын
i'm from malaysia..i don't know since i've got to know more about cambodia.i feel attached!i'm not mixed or having any relative over there.whatever you guys are in any situation..i pray for the best!👍
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
@@supremekhmer6596 global city my ass. Not even Phnom Penh is a global city. A city that has become an economic colony of another country (in this case China) has no chance in hell of ever becoming "global". No westerners, or other non-Chinese foreigners visit Sihanoukville now. A global city attracts people from all over the world. If Sihanoukville continues on the current path it is finished.
@linhchau3671
5 жыл бұрын
I love cambodia ...but i sad...why? Not come back😭😭😭
@sodadakoko607
5 жыл бұрын
Great video
@nightrider12soul
5 жыл бұрын
I rember the place some 12 years ago,stay often in Victory hill watching the sunset the road was mud road with charming bars walk down to the Victory beach or took ride to zotres when there were few shacks.Chinese development of casinos and hotels destroy the beauty of the place.I feel sad to see the way that the town develop now.Cambodian as a Buddhist do not like to gamble.This new infrastructure kill all the charm of my ex home Victory Hill and Cambodians do not like it.There are many fights going on with Chinese and Cambodian civilians.Hope big tsunami would ruin all Chinese constructions,but no becouse of human lives.They destroy Laos too.
@camihvvbl4979
5 жыл бұрын
Zoran Marusic 12 years ago...... and dirty poor locals
@nightrider12soul
5 жыл бұрын
Well,locals will be more poor,the strong Chinese economy will bay everything and not employ locals,Locals will not be Abel to bay properties.I know the barang that offered locals 5 dollars per hour to put stones in his garden.Nobady wanted..Not all were dirty poor locals,is a bit insulting.zthere were many hard working people too.Strange that e Rey kid 14+ had a scooter.Well everyone has his point on subject.
@maulinacantika9591
5 жыл бұрын
the city is full of dust, lack of electricity, lack of water. and all are expensive.
@sarounthoun
5 жыл бұрын
l'image de la chine en plus la musique dans le film de jackie chinois ça me rend très mal au cœur ! mon pauvre Pays devient LE CAMBODCHINE (:
@MaxRoadSHV
3 жыл бұрын
Can't imagine time take things to be so. Lost mostly all happiness. I'm doing video about the city with sadness cuz just want people to see what going on here. Can't be back. 😥😥
@mikechonburi7976
5 жыл бұрын
What are the best beaches to go to in Sihanoukville that aren't polluted and trashed?
@samchhin8
5 жыл бұрын
Koh rong beach
@mikikjaer7401
5 жыл бұрын
yes go to the islands
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
Koh Kong island, right next to the Thai border. Koh Rong and Koh Rong Samloen are nice too (for now, although signs of development are arriving) but to get there you have to pass through Sihanoukville, unfortunately. Also try Koh Tonsay (Rabbit island) off Kep, or anywhere east of Sihanoukville towards Kampot and to the Vietnamese border.
@huppithai
5 жыл бұрын
Good luck i stayed in Thailand and did not move on to S.ville
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
hubert wagner yes in Thailand much service sex
@keithy507
5 жыл бұрын
It’s like one big building site now! Will they get the numbers to fill up these casinos and big hotels they are building!? They’ve definitely lost the charm of the place with all these buildings. I always wanted to go there before but not now! 😔
@keithheal9692
5 жыл бұрын
i have been to Cambodia, loved it , not here they should rename this city China town.
@kosalofficial8194
5 жыл бұрын
20 year tt jea province nek mean hz
@sodadakoko607
5 жыл бұрын
ចាំពេលអភិវឌ្ឍន៍ហើយចាំទៅលេង
@jimmibo0420
5 жыл бұрын
what happened to my beautiful town?!?!?!
@bente1958
5 жыл бұрын
Makes me want to cry/
@ugoperioli9429
5 жыл бұрын
Bro is the second MIAMI😂
@camihvvbl4979
5 жыл бұрын
It’s becoming more beautiful
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
@@camihvvbl4979 LOL!! More beautiful my ass! It's becoming a dump! Look at all the garbage everywhere and the sewage dumped everywhere. The roads are atrocious and nobody except Chinese gamblers is visiting. Miami is beautiful but Sihanoukville is a third world dump and will always be a dump. It was fine when it was a Cambodian town (despite the burning of rubbish here and there) but now as a cheap Chinese town with ugly 30 storey building that all look the same, it's soul is gone. No way in hell is Sihanoukville ever going to be able to compete with any city you are comparing it to. It's nothing compared to anywhere in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and it's laughable to think it can ever be like Hawaii or Miami, not a chance in hell.
@rsa420
5 жыл бұрын
So very sad indeed. I lived there for while what shame
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
rsa420 what you want ? Your talk it seem like you worry Cambodia, I think no
@rsa420
5 жыл бұрын
@@NaNa-wl1qt One of the nicest places in the kingdom but now sold out to the chinese
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
rsa420 what a nice place you have seen in Sihanouk?
@stephaniemcwilliams9147
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the video I was looking at visiting here for our 2019 holidays will definitely be giving this place a wide birth after seeing this though. Looks horrendous
@@NaNa-wl1qt Sihanoukville is a dump. It's nowhere near what Pattaya is like. Pattaya has world class shopping malls like Central Plaza and 5-star accommodation. Does Sihanoukville have that? NOPE. It doesn't have even a single shopping mall. Hell even KFC recently closed it's doors in Sihanoukville and most of the good restaurants and bars are gone. Where do you come off comparing Pattaya, a city with excellent roads and even an expressway to Bangkok (and an extension to the Maptaphut port nearing completion and about to open), great golf courses, an expanding international airport nearby, large industrial estate, theme parks garlour, great shopping, bars, hotels, etc. to a dump like Sihanoukville? BTW I used to like the quaintness of the old Sihanoukville - it could never be compared to Pattaya, Phuket or anywhere like that but it was special in it's own way. Now you have to go to Kampot or Kep (or Koh Kong) if you want to enjoy a beach town in Cambodia. But none of these places are very big (nor should they be) but just to state the obvious - Cambodia does not have and doesn't need to have, anything comparable to Pattaya or Nha Trang in Vietnam. Besides, tall ugly skyscrapers that block out the view of the beach from people behind don't make a place more attractive and are unnecessary. I realize that Nha Trang and Pattaya both have such buildings, but at least they aren't all clustered together and they all look different from each other as the architects in these countries actually have some imagination, unlike the Chinese architects who just build the same Communist style 30-40 storey buildings everywhere.
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
The Rock ok I give pattaya or any place in Thailand number 1 ok ? I don't like to compare my country to any country specially prostitution country.
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
Why I don't know western never want to see Asia grow, the past and now
@hansvandijk9787
5 жыл бұрын
Good to see China is building affordable housing for the Khmer ;)
@gerylsteve3079
5 жыл бұрын
Hans van Dijk The Khmers and even the leftover-tourists can't pay that housing-rent prices anymore, i live here and tell you that all prices for renting are five to tenfolds up in 2 years time.
@amparatpongviphan8403
5 жыл бұрын
It's Macau 2
@melluzi
5 жыл бұрын
It's Chelyabinsk 2.
@camihvvbl4979
5 жыл бұрын
Much better than Pattaya
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
Cami Hvvbl you are right, western want Asia live under their leg , see good only outside
@camihvvbl4979
5 жыл бұрын
Luke Smith those business legally operation. SHV is a only deep see port in Cambodia, it is designed to be industrial and commercial city, NGOs have to move to somewhere else far from the business zone
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
@@camihvvbl4979 Nonsense. Pattaya is WAY better than Sihanoukville. Pattaya is very much still the same as it used to be 20-30 years ago. You can still enjoy the place whether you are a single man, a family or into the sex scene or not. There are shopping malls, great restaurants, bars, clubs, natural attractions, everything you could want in a beach holiday. Sihanoukville is a shithole and in just a couple of years, westerners and other non-Chinese (and even local Khmers) have stopped going there. That has NEVER happened in Pattaya and probably never will. These days in SHV you have to play the game "spot the westerner" because so few are left, but in Pattaya they are everywhere.
China has invested capitals in Cambodia to help develop the economy and advance the infrastructures. China has invested much more in USA, Canada as well Africa. Cambodia can not stay the same all the time !
@therock8224
5 жыл бұрын
Yes it can. Cambodia doesn't need China's help - it's a debt trap. Although I support the construction of better roads and railways (which is what Cambodia actually needs) as opposed to ugly 30-40 storey Communist high-rises, but of course whoever sold Sihanoukville to the Chinese had other priorities.
@david1234lee
5 жыл бұрын
No, it is not. 99% of home owners in USA have borrowed from the banks and eventually own their homes. With good homes, they can find jobs, raise their families and pay taxes to build up good communities. Japan borrowed, China borrowed, all European nations after WWII borrowed. See how good they are now !
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
david lee yes you are right, but why this world still have some stupid people , ?
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
Thai puppet of USA number one make coup do every thing for USA . pussy of king and Prime Minister
@david1234lee
5 жыл бұрын
Glad you realize that !
@bente1958
5 жыл бұрын
Note lack of tourists
@hansvandijk9787
5 жыл бұрын
Empty beaches, empty buildings, patiently awaiting the Chinese invasion.
@@sodadakoko607 It's China now dude. Go there and find out. You'll need to speak Chinese just to get around town now!
@user-cl3bp9qi4v
5 жыл бұрын
ไม่พูดมากเจ็บคอ
@sideleyOriginal
5 жыл бұрын
chinatown
@rtx1267
5 жыл бұрын
The second Macao
@androidservice1533
5 жыл бұрын
horror.
@alexynoify
5 жыл бұрын
Vv
@NaNa-wl1qt
5 жыл бұрын
People comment so bad to Cambodia, I see every country have hight building near the beach why they don't want to see Cambodia build it . Investment is investment what wrong ?
@hansvandijk9787
5 жыл бұрын
It's not Cambodia building it. It's China building it. Still not much wrong with that, but for whom and for what are they building all this? Who are going to profit from it. Cambodians?
@camihvvbl4979
5 жыл бұрын
Those people having problems with Chinese. It’s called jealousy. From now on Cambodia will see those western expats in low regards not the same as before because now they realized that they have been cheated over very low cheap paid services for many years by those people
@Jddjdurjf
5 жыл бұрын
@@camihvvbl4979 There is no reason to be jealous. Jealous of what? Chinese only give a shit about fast money and grabbing anything they can from the poor. They do it to their own poor people every day. In china your either rich of manipulated.
@camihvvbl4979
5 жыл бұрын
Simon Wilson then what is it if it’s not jealousy? Two parties signed agreement because they saw benefits from it but you guys always bitching any matter that involved Chinese. Maybe you are afraid then
@keithy507
5 жыл бұрын
The rich will get richer and the poor, poorer! With Chinese hotels nobody will stay in the Cambodian guest houses etc. Can only see the majority of visitors being Chinese now anyway! (Personal opinion)
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