Chinese Influx Brings Trash, High Prices to Cambodia’s Sihanoukville

A surge in Chinese investment and in the numbers of migrant workers in Cambodia’s port city of Sihanoukville has left local beaches polluted and Cambodian residents struggling to meet higher prices as the cost of living rises, Cambodian sources say.

Speaking to RFA’s Khmer Service on Wednesday, Muong Sony—a youth leader in the Khmer Student Intelligent League Association—said following a recent visit that conditions in the city have declined dramatically over the last year.

“The situation in this area has now changed a lot,” he said.

Read the full story: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/influx-10112018140456.html

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