Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:38 am

ExPenhMan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 9:31 am Lots of boarded up shop spaces in the mall. But I can't get the images out of mind from all the videos showing a ghost city with filthy streets and empty buildings.

Good luck, Jamie, rebuilding Sville from your great memories of the past.

the fact SHV now has a cinema is amazing hahaha when i lived there the only cinema was just a dingy room with a sofa and bean bags playing pirated dvds

I remember that place because I never went , I had them put movies on my stick and watched them in my room I had for 5 years at the beach road hotel next door but thank god ( if there was one ) that now I heard they do have a Burger King , a d of corse mikes burgers

pissontheroof wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:28 am

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:38 am

ExPenhMan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 9:31 am Lots of boarded up shop spaces in the mall. But I can't get the images out of mind from all the videos showing a ghost city with filthy streets and empty buildings.

Good luck, Jamie, rebuilding Sville from your great memories of the past.

the fact SHV now has a cinema is amazing hahaha when i lived there the only cinema was just a dingy room with a sofa and bean bags playing pirated dvds

I remember that place because I never went , I had them put movies on my stick and watched them in my room I had for 5 years at the beach road hotel next door but thank god ( if there was one ) that now I heard they do have a Burger King , a d of corse mikes burgers

yeah theres a burger king now at the mall near victory hill

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:13 am

truffledog wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:20 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:15 am
Most of the past 2 years i was based in Thailand,
During 2020 i was still living in Thailand in January, then i started to float about,
End of Jan i flew to Philippines for a week to go check it out (never been)
i then flew to Cambodia beginning of Feb for GenMacs engagement (went to PP, Battambong and SHV)
i then flew back to Thailand cleared out my apartment and moved to the Philippines Feb/March but then all the lockdowns started,
i escaped Philippines a few days before they closed the airports,
flew back to England, where 2 weeks later was locked down there, and was stuck there for just over 7 months

What kind of experience did you make in the Philippines?

i was up in Angeles, actually quite enjoyed it there, cheap and chilled

Did you visit subic bay ? Otherwise known as cock suck city ? The lord knows I need one of those

pissontheroof wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:31 am

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Sun Jan 10, 2021 11:13 am

truffledog wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 6:20 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 08, 2021 11:15 am
Most of the past 2 years i was based in Thailand,
During 2020 i was still living in Thailand in January, then i started to float about,
End of Jan i flew to Philippines for a week to go check it out (never been)
i then flew to Cambodia beginning of Feb for GenMacs engagement (went to PP, Battambong and SHV)
i then flew back to Thailand cleared out my apartment and moved to the Philippines Feb/March but then all the lockdowns started,
i escaped Philippines a few days before they closed the airports,
flew back to England, where 2 weeks later was locked down there, and was stuck there for just over 7 months

What kind of experience did you make in the Philippines?

i was up in Angeles, actually quite enjoyed it there, cheap and chilled

Did you visit subic bay ? Otherwise known as cock suck city ? The lord knows I need one of those

no i just had an apartment in Balibago, so just chilled out around there

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Were you there back then Jamie, did you frequent Oceans hotel?
He ended up set up & run out of Cam.
Pole dancing stage on the rooftop bar!

Public Beach, Lake Made Private at Government Orders
6 min read
Mech Dara and Danielle Keeton-Olsen


SIHANOUKVILLE — If you encounter a guard, they will kick you out and take your wares, says Chhum Om, as she scrapes her small ceramic grill in preparation for another day trying to sell enough prawns and squid to keep up with rent payments.

A series of state land deals are slicing up valuable corners of Preah Sihanouk province to benefit powerful individuals in Cambodia: the prime minister’s family; businesses linked to tycoon Ly Yong Phat and the Prince conglomerate shareholders; the National Police chief and numerous others.

A lake is being turned into a development site, with local residents’ homes dismantled, while a coastal bay is in the process of becoming landfill. More than a dozen government-issued sub-decrees, visits to the tracts of land in question, and interviews with residents, officials and observers paint a picture of the province’s land developments as being deeply entwined with the country’s power structures.

For now, Om, 50, sells grilled seafood from a vendors’ patio next to Independence Beach, where she crouches on the sidewalk in between the plastic chairs and tables of bigger shack restaurants. Guards recently stopped vendors from selling at the beach next to the nearby Sokha Hotel, and she has heard rumors that their stands in the shadow of Independence Hotel could also be banned.

“If they close here, we don’t know where to go,” she says. “Closing the beach is like closing the poor.”

One of Cambodia’s biggest conglomerates was handed some 6 hectares of beach and lake on prime Sihanoukville land after the company made a donation to the city’s road renovation. But the vendors at the beach argue that the now-privatized coast and wetlands still have public value.

Among a number of sub-decrees privatizing and gifting Preah Sihanouk province’s degraded forest land, the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation received a 24,652 square meter strip of beach in September 2019, after the government changed the state public area into private.

Two months later, the government privatized 34,666 square meters of Boeng Prek Tob lake, which faces Independence Hotel, and transferred it to OCIC.

Beachside land is worth roughly $2,500 to $3,000 per square meter, according to Ross Wheble, country director of real estate firm Knight Frank. The total value of the two plots could be as high as $178 million.

Under the Land Law, beaches and lakes are supposed to remain state land, as they’re deemed valuable to the public. However the November 2019 sub-decree hints at the government’s rationale for revoking public access, stating the land was given in exchange for OCIC’s donation to the state-led Sihanoukville road development project. Late last year, government spokesperson Phay Siphan explained that this was the government’s current strategy to make up for budgetary shortfalls.

Chaired by tycoon Pung Kheav Se, OCIC operates in close proximity to Prime Minister HE as well as prominent Chinese state and private companies. The company is responsible for some of the country’s most ambitious construction projects in the capital, including massive landfilling on two Mekong River islands, Koh Pich and Koh Norea, as well a new international airport and city spanning thousands of hectares in Kandal and Takeo provinces.

A project manager working with OCIC said he did not know about the company’s developments in Sihanoukville and would not refer reporters to another source. An assistant to Kheav Se did not respond to emailed questions. OCIC’s plans for the beach and lake land are unclear.
Full article: https://vodenglish.news/public-beach-la ... nt-orders/

Just when you think it can't get any worse, think again. Cambodia could be the poster child for how to fuck up a beach, a city, hell an entire country. What next!?

johnny lightning wrote: ↑Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:50 am Just when you think it can't get any worse, think again. Cambodia could be the poster child for how to fuck up a beach, a city, hell an entire country. What next!?

Just wait until they turn their attention to the islands

Sihanoukville video, posted 6 May 2021: