(The Central Tower of Wu Goku Temple, South Seven)

"Cambodia is heaven or hell? may be all." here was once the emperor's artificial heaven, and now is the hell of abduction; countless Chinese are in this adventure of gold-growing, rich overnight, but more are trapped, and even a lifetime; the people here are both simple and cunning, both cowardly and easy to incite.

Angkor Wat is the largest Buddhist architectural site in the world, which is magnificent and ingenious. The most famous scenic spot in Angkor Wat is Angkor Temple. Its tallest building is the central pagoda hall, which symbolizes Mount Sumeru in Buddhism, the central axis of the whole universe and the legendary paradise. Her charm attracts tourists from all over the world.

Now, Cambodia has become synonymous with hell. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has noted that nearly 100,000-150,000 people in Cambodia may have lost their freedom and been forced to engage in online scam activities. Most of the victims are foreigners from neighboring countries. Countless tragedies of kidnapping for extortion and even death are constantly repeated in the media.

When I was on vacation in Bangkok, I met a Chinese man, named Amun (translated name). he once did a dining business in Phnom Penh, opened a barbecue store, "I asked him, I heard that a well-renovated restaurant, a year profit can reach 5 million yuan. while the domestic same restaurant net profit is about 500,000 yuan, 5 million may exaggerate, but 200-300 million is not difficult."

Cambodia is using both the local currency rial and the dollar ($10,000 rial - $2.4 yuan - $17 yuan). Foreigners are priced in dollars, and local workers earn an average of $300-400 a month, while in an ordinary restaurant, three or two friends have to eat a meal and spend $200. A row of 2 yuan domestic soft bones can be sold for $2 in Phnom Penh. Sometimes, an outsourcing order consumes up to $2-3000.

¡°But this place is too complicated,¡± he said, ¡°It¡¯s normal to hear someone die in West Port Phnom Penh and other places in Cambodia, and it¡¯s not normal to hear people die.¡±

I asked, "Is it the Chinese who suffer?"

He didn't speak. I think that's probably one of the reasons why he left Cambodia, at least.

(Washport street dungeon, photographed by netizens, authorized)

In Cambodia, Sihanouk Port (shortly West Port) is the best witness to this 10 years of madness developing to destruction. Its planned area is 11 square kilometers, only the size of the Beijing Armed Forces, but it is said to now have more than 1000 dungeons.

It was planned as a special economic zone in Cambodia, originally a small fishing village with less than 50,000 inhabitants, and has grown to more than 600,000 in three years, 50% of which are Chinese.

Even earlier in 2017, the mass of Chinese began to enter West Port, and local real estate began to take off and soar to madness.

In 2019, I met a real estate developer in West Port, Wei, who took 6,000 acres of land, including 3,600 acres of land, 2,400 acres of forest land, and the contract amount was 10 billion yuan, sold out. He didn't worry at all about the so-called real estate bubble explosion. Because most of the money in Cambodia's real estate came from cash investment. At the time, near the sea, the apartment has already exceeded 20,000 yuan (more than $4,000) per square meter, close to the price of the capital's central area of Phnom Penh. and the local average monthly wage, then more than 2,000 yuan.

Even Xue Manzi, a controversial investor, told the media in 2019 that he bought about 40 square kilometers of land, which is a little larger than Macau (Macau is 380,000 square kilometers). Of course, some people commented, "Blow NB."

And by 2025, this bubble has exploded. In coastal luxury residential communities such as BlueBayCondominium and TheSeagateSuite in Westport, at the peak period in 2019-2020, the highest was more than 4,000 US dollars per square meter, but now it is about 2,500 US dollars. In ordinary communities close to urban areas, it has dropped from $2,000 to $1,000, and in more remote areas, it has dropped from $1,000 to $200-300, and the most extreme is even less than $100. It is said that in Westport, there are currently more than 1,000 unfinished plates.

Looking at Wei's cabinet's circle of friends, he later went to do digital currency, and now the transformation has begun to do AI.

In Cambodia, in addition to manufacturing, the most mentioned is electric fraud.

Cambodia has an area of 180,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the size of Guangdong Province, close to Thailand and Vietnam, back to China, located in the geographical location of the transport hub of Southeast Asia, is an important country along the ¡°21st Century Sea Silk Road¡±. Before the outbreak, products such as leather bags, backpacks, handbags and wallets manufactured in Cambodia were exported to the United States, many of which were zero tariffs. The United States is the largest exporter of Cambodia. In 2025, the United States imposed a tariff of 49% on Cambodia, down to 19% after negotiations.

In Cambodia, before the gambling industry was legal, you can apply for the relevant licenses. The casinos are distributed in Phnom Penh, West Port, Bobe, Bahama and other cities, but the port of Sihanouk is the most concentrated, more than 60%. More than 50% are Chinese. The casinos also have online gambling business. But more is the gambling business that operates illegally without a license. In the peak period, only in the port of Sihanouk, the Chinese gambling group, more than 100,000. In real estate, supermarket, catering and other industries, it is said that more than 500,000. After the local settlement hit, the gambling industry began to decline.

According to Wikipedia, Cambodia¡¯s total GDP in 2024 is about $46 billion, but Electronic fraud generates $12.5 billion to $19 billion a year.Approximately 40% of Cambodia¡¯s GDP, according to a report by the United Nations in 2024. About 100,000-150,000 people lost their freedom,Those detained in these Cambodian parks were forced to conduct cyber fraud, mostly foreigners, and the most harassed by the outside world is that such large-scale parks, without the protection of local political forces, could not exist for a long time.

On September 8, the U.S. announced sanctions against telecommunications fraud groups in Southeast Asia. According to a statement, the U.S. government would sanction 10 groups in Cambodia on suspicion of forcing people to engage in investment fraud activities such as virtual currency. The press release said: ¡°Cyber fraud activities in Southeast Asia not only threaten the well-being and financial security of Americans, but also make thousands of people modern slaves.¡±

(The couple before the temple of Wu, South Seven)

Cambodia has always been a very chaotic country. For example, the magnificent Wu Gong Grotto, the capital of the Wu Gong Dynasty for more than 600 years, why would it be abandoned in the 15th century? Some say the plague, water shortage, or war, in fact are all speculation. Because there is no written history in the place, it can only be inferred from the stone sculptures and so on. It is said that the banana leaves and leaves were used to write and record, and as long as the time, it ruined into ash. After being completely swallowed by the tropical rainforest, until 400 years later, the Frenchman Henry Moore caught the butterflies, only to rediscover Wu Gong Grotto.

It is small and only three or two streets are fixed in the city center. Some white old men, embracing local women, often see such scenes when shopping. White old men are just like proud chickens, walking head-on ahead, and local women carrying large bags, including food and other things, carefully followed behind.

There is a clear difference between the situation in Thailand and Vietnam and the Philippines, where the general age of the elderly is 60 to 70 years old, and the economic conditions are also somewhat worse, and there is probably no money. The local partners of women are significantly older, and appear to be over 40 years old. But in Thailand and Vietnam and the Philippines, men are generally 50 to 60 years old, with women over 20 years old or transgender groups.

When I was traveling in Cameroon, I rented a tutu car (a local motorcycle tri-wheel), the driver was local Luckly, who carried a typical Cambodian cleverness and simplicity. On the offer, when he saw you were a foreigner, he would report a price at least 100% more expensive than the local, and then continuously talk about his difficulties, but when acquainted, he would proactively remind you how to save money.

He said that in the past two years, there have been a lot fewer Chinese tourists, including Hong Kong and Taiwan Province, as well as fewer tourists from South Korea, Japan and Thailand. According to his personal observation, there are 70% fewer Chinese tourists. These people are the richest and most willing to spend money. Nowadays, there are many Indian tourists and Russian tourists, and they are basically budget-conscious. I asked him why the Chinese didn't come? He said he didn't know. He didn't even know about the electronic fraud.

According to public data, Southern Airlines will fly 14 flights per week to Phnom Penh in Shenzhen in 2019 and only 3 flights per week in 2025.

Luckly now has two children, and his wife works in the factory. But he has to work part-time to feed the whole family, because there are too few tourists, and it is not possible to feed the family on the tutu car alone. After the oldest daughter is out of school, to go to the extra-class repair class, it costs $60 per month, which is not a small expense for them. In the grain, a worker's salary is approximately $300. So Luckly is now working part-time in a factory in a Taiwan region, only so can support the family's expenses.

Jane, a local female college student, works part-time in a resort to earn money and pay tuition. Her dream is that after graduation, she will be an elementary school teacher with a monthly salary of about $400.

When I was in Cambodia, Thailand and Cambodia were on the verge of a border conflict. Many locals, both hated and even hated the Thai people. They felt that life was difficult now, and there was a great reason that the Thai people caused it. In fact, Thailand is Cambodia's largest labor force exporter, with roughly 1.5 million Cambodians working in the Thai state every year and sending foreign exchange back to the country, together accounting for about 10% of Cambodia's GDP.

Although about 90% of Cambodians are Buddhists and temperate, they have always been destroyed in the 1900s and 1950s, when the Cambodian economy began to recover and develop, and in the 1960s, even Li Hong Yuan from Singapore went to visit and study. But after the 1970s, the era of the Red Khmer, when the intellectuals were basically united and the economy collapsed, most of them remained illiterate, which made most people now simple, but very easily mislead and incited.