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Cambodia’s Capital City Reaches for the Sky

Cambodia’s Capital City Reaches for the Sky

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Nov 25, 2016
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Phnom Penh -- the city the Khmer Rouge emptied in 1975 – is now a sprawling urban center of 1.7 million people whose skyline could soon be unrecognizable as a slate of skyscrapers are either planned or under construction – and possibly just in time for a rude property shock in a market characterized by bad planning and onslaughts against the poor.

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