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Chinese exodus leaves Cambodia boomtown with 500 'ghost buildings'

Sihanoukville saddled with unfinished projects due to casino clampdown and COVID

One of the unfinished 'ghost buildings' in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.  (Photo by Hiroki Endo)

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia -- An exodus of Chinese real estate companies has left this Cambodian seaside resort littered with hundreds of half-finished projects.

The concrete skeleton of one of these buildings stands on a piece of land owned by 51-year-old elementary school teacher Pan Sombo.

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