Comments on: Sihanoukville – The New Macau of Southeast Asia

By: William D Webster

William D Webster — Tue, 08 May 2018 06:43:26 +0000

In reply to Ted. Right On! I couldn't say it any better!!

By: William D Webster

William D Webster — Tue, 08 May 2018 06:37:20 +0000

A bunch of cheap, crappy casinos that are fronts for internet gambling and money laundering don’t make a Vegas or Machu. I’ve lived in Sihanoukville for 7 years and visited Thailand for 35 years. Sihanoukville looks like a war zone. Garbage everywhere, and sewage running down the streets, buildings being demolished everywhere, dust hanging in the air 24/7, crazed Chinese drivers in vans full of Chinese internet gambling computer operators on their way to and from the work of fleesing Chinese gamblers in China (where its illegal to gamble online.) Also who is dumb enough to gamble with and in casinos that are not regulated? Might as well just throw your money into the street. On the other hand, legal gambling and internet gambling will become legal on Hainan Island, China very soon. Bye-Bye Sihanoukville online gambling casinos as it will be legal to gamble on line with casinos on Hainan Island. What Chinese person in their right mind would go to a place like Sihanoukville with garbage filled street and sewage everywhere, when they can fly faster to Hainan Island where they have clean beach’s, legal gambling and everyone speaks Chinese. With the sewage flowing everywhere in Sihanoukville, how long before their will be an epidemic? Its not a matter of IF its a matter of WHEN!!

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:12:31 +0000

I’ve been frequenting Sihanoukville for years, and know it as a beautiful Asian, laid-back retreat, where Khmers and Westerners sort of lived hand-in-hand, with and around each other. Fairy-lit bars/restaurants, with background music and a general peace and tranquility were interbred.
Now, this has been taken away by selfish, greedy Chinky’s, with their ignorance of other cultures, who care for only themselves and are blind to what others think of them. I can tell you that Khmers and Westerners alike, have seen there moronic, low values and standards and as a result, the chinks are hated. They build,service, and entertain for themselves; they displace relaxed and settled communities, including local Khmers, who struggle to make just a few dollars; they are loud; they leave shite everywhere, spit all over the place, and generally bring and display a new, low-down, imbecilic culture of negative manners to a place, they have wrecked and continue to wreck. The saying is the chinks intend to Pattaya-rise Sihanoukville, and if you are familiar with what has happened and is still happening in Sihanoukville, especially the greed, the Khmers being forced back to their villages, because their livelihoods have been taken, the multitudes of local Khmers and foreigners that have been turfed out of their accommodation, sometimes overnite, the excessive noisy, Chinese bar music, brawling amongst each other, with police, with locals, etc, you’ll understand the type of sub-culture and sub-standards the Chinese are bringing to what was a great place to be in. Now, it isn’t. It’s now Chinkville. It isn’t the place any Western foreigner would want to be, if they expect to see beautiful South East Asia, in its natural facade. Sihanoukville is wrecked and you might as well be in China, if you didn’t know the difference. The Chinks are clearly out for themselves, and the Khmer government are probably letting them get away with it, The Sihanoukville I am used too, has gone, because of an un-challenged exploitation by one greedy, imbecilic breed, over a much nicer culture. It’s the decent, ordinary Khmers I feel sorry for, but the Chinky’ are not changing Sihanoukville for the better, by making it their own extension of China, they are changing it for the worst. Sihanoukville is off the map of many people I used to know there, and the chinky breed that are there now, should be taken away, and re-educated, before being allowed back, and being made to re-think their strategy, instead of wrecking the proper Asia.

By: Ashlee Gilberti

Ashlee Gilberti — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:39:11 +0000

cool looking fishng rig!

By: budget jan

budget jan — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 06:56:55 +0000

Gosh, we loved Otres. Pity there is a Casino complex going there. We were there in 2013 and Sihanoukville didn’t have any Casinos as far as I knew. It was interesting reading about developments.

By: Phillip Birt

Phillip Birt — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 15:12:44 +0000

Hi – excellent article. Many thanks for the update. A friend living in Sihanoukville telephoned me earlier this week to tell me about the transformation. He said the place was like a construction site and was becoming more Chinese and less Asian by the day. I spent 3 months in the place last year and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. Sincerely, hope that the changes do not spoil the “vibe” nor force up the price of local food and accommodation. Before reading your article I was seriously thinking of returning to Sihanoukville but now I think I need to find a viable alternative where the cost of living is lower than the UK. Cheers!

By: Dick Pellek

Dick Pellek — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:54:16 +0000

Thanks for the many quality photos to go along with your story. I’ve followed your blog for some time now. I’m looking forward to reading more about the transformation of Ho Chi Minh City, with its new rail system.