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Chinese Company’s Monument to Disaster

Chinese Company’s Monument to Disaster

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May 15, 2017
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A vast, ornate, moldering gambling resort complex on the Gulf of Thailand has come to embody many of the problems plaguing foreign projects in Cambodia – lack of transparency, poor planning, environmental hazards and displacement of local communities.

The resort, built by the Tianjin-based Union Development Group (UDG), a Chinese entity, was meant to be …

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