symes over the government's handling of the murder of journalist definitely. 2 years ago australia's foreign minister says china is subjecting one of its citizens to daily interrogations including while being shackled pro-democracy writer young german has been detained in china since january he's been accused of spying or is paying the foreign minister says yang is being held in unacceptable conditions and is urging beijing to release him and a local official in albania has resigned over a few comments she made about the death toll from last week's deadly earthquake the mayor of the city of durham sparked outrage when she said she was quote satisfied only 50 people died in the quake was one of the hardest hit areas the $6.00 magnitude quake killed at least 51 people those are your headlines when he says next. county mccall start the protest. could it be a multi-billion dollar loan with tax forgiveness to the corporations the

stereotypes of the poorest. on the part of the economic policy did it help to pan recover from its lost decade. counting the costs on i'll just leave. them. with. a chinese casino empire to rival macau and las vegas. on the coast of cambodia. in just a few years sihanoukville has been transformed from a sleepy tourist town into a heaving metropolis. the money is flooding in but so too are notorious chinese cartels with allegations of abduction. and even murder it seems these gangs will stop at nothing in their quest to get rich quick if they. don't want to see that happening.

when i want east investigates the growing criminal underbelly of cambodia's. here on the tarmac account bodhi has known penn international airport the authorities have their hands full. there deporting 150 chinese citizens. the detainees of prodded and probed like cattle before being bungled a full 2 specially charge it plays. but it's chinese police not count bodie who are handling this deportation we surprised when chinese police came in to take home those people accused of being involved in criminal activities so it's a secret says our city. chinese businessman one she long markets real estate in the

southern coastal city of siena thrill he says the arrests are part of a targeted crackdown on illegal chinese gambling records. sync up and was singing the song if and that's the whole reason to say to me there has to. create a process here faith fog that. there is out here. named after cambodia's last king sihanouk will was once acquired seaside town. today it's undergoing a dramatic transformation. for the past 3 years chinese investment has poured in. and the focus of all this construction. casinos. we always on the.

last and we just saw your power for that that's. seen. as of. more than $100.00 casinos are planned with most of them already operating. and they range from shady backstreet parlors to multi-million dollar pier moths appealing to wealthy high rollers. but beyond the traditional casino operations there's a lucrative new game driving this boom and the players are far away and online. it's a huge business legal to operate here in cambodia but like all forms of gambling is outlawed in mainland china is it possible for someone in china to play those. not only is it possible they are the target. johnny ferrari knows this business well

the canadian gaming consultant introduced online gaming technology to several casinos here he says many sites actively recruit gamblers who place their bets from china in direct contravention of chinese law so this is illegal it's illegal every single bet being made is illegal but you see when i say illegal i don't mean that anyone is getting scammed in terms of the players. players are happy they're getting a fair product it's illegal because this is banned by the powers that be and it's all loopholes it's all loopholes. and it's not just banned in china gambling is illegal for cambodian citizens to the entire industry that sprouted here is intended for foreign consumption only. it's frankly rare for a casino in sin a guild to open its doors to the foreign media especially given all the recent

negative headlines coming out of the city but this casino operator has decided to allow us in here and it wants to promote the very sort of gambling that's actually under the microscope right now. w.n. casino rows of smiling young creepy deal out caught up to cart cameras capturing each hand and live streaming to gamblers around the world who place bets from the comfort of their own homes. casino operators in cambodia say the gambling industry is creating thousands of jobs in the publicly stricken nation. but not all these jobs are above board. in another casino we find evidence of under-age workers and exploitation. croupy a song is preparing for her next 12 hour shift she works from 8 pm to 8 am 6 nights a week. she tells. she started working at the casino

a year ago when she was just 15. all she had to do to get the job was presented dr a birth certificate that said she was 18. when not using her real name to protect her identity. have again i'm. now supports a family earning more than $400.00 a month nearly double the average salary. that. she says she was shocked at the 1st time a chinese gambler propositioned her to. come up come

like. a law. absalom. and she says she's met other under-age casino workers. but how do you know for sure they're there under age. some of them want to now. be honest most of us don't know what these buildings they're going to be maggie ino a british aid worker has run a child protection ngo in sihanoukville for nearly 2 decades she says it's common for casinos to recruit under-age workers. her staff has seen 18 girls one

just 13 years old drop out of school to work in casinos since april last year in order to get this salary of 3 or $400.00 a month so young people are being exposed to so much danger it's really bad for young development to be dropping out of school and the chances of say. they're supposed to so many dangerous. drugs they're seeing money at them and they start to think that that is a normal situation which it isn't. a good safe environment for young people to be working in. given sihanouk bills polluted traffic clog streets it's not a great environment took truck driver even. the growing chinese population is a double edged sword he's making around $300.00 a month much more than he did before. the soaring price of property means he can no

longer afford to rent a room. don't. buy your. little bit. of blue. he says he worries that the character of the city is changing too fast. chinese will outnumber cambodia. more than 90 percent of businesses here chinese are. right i don't. have the muscle in my life to pay for the work in the family. home in them you maggie you know is not happy either she worries about the growing number of families being pushed out of their homes by skyrocketing right. i mean if

you say this house the house is south of here actually 2 different families living here. further along the beach we meet one of those families a come bodie and mother with learning difficulties and her young son. life was a struggle before but it's much worse now. if you like. situations really desperate i mean you can't really be more vulnerable families right now if they live in that you know there's no doctor that the reason that she did that is because when trying is the best pain in the rents increased by a 1000 homes that. were on the beach with the sea on one side and a vast chinese construction site on the other. this 4 kilometer stretch of sand

used to draw backpackers from around the world. today it's a rubbish dump i think right now and most cambodians feel this is going to take over from friday if they feel like strangers when they're asked to see. when maggie sees catastrophe these investors see. they've just arrived in see them through. many of them traveling outside of china for the 1st time really hoping to find opportunities here. in the apartment and. just enough for me to see. this reconnaissance trip is providing a 1st hand limbs. broken infrastructure both. junks says it reminds him of what china was once like before it became the world's 2nd largest economy. it's all ok and. 1 pm after maybe 10 years of each other. china

are going in so many different ways if the structures of construction along the way . and i think ammonia depend on sign a lot. right we don't see this is the problem is. if either south korea retreated from. growing tired of. potential well. these investors are tired is one built one road chinese president xi jinping has grand vision to project power and influence by creating new trading routes between asia europe and the middle east. it is a vision that attracted chinese businessmen one she'd come to see you know. well

having dinner at a busy seafood restaurant packed with chinese customers there's a new trick. that you don't just sit on. the way. out i just thought about how that one and i get which are. very. good sense of. the phrase i think it. is concerned about seeing the bills increasingly violent reputation. and the good i want to see that. you could. not pass so i guess if you're not passing. side. to it whole i just said. fox on the side to the to it's our. money and you come out. and this is happening

in broad daylight here you see the body actually being thrown into the street. choice enzyte so it's a bit of. distance and but. no i think boys here. for me and i shall see it when i. see. it'll be fun. he can keep on being he believes that eventually it will be more like heaven that's because cambodian prime minister who did send announced a dramatic measure in august to phase out online gambling. sites and we saw your. empty chair and mitt. they want. you to go for you so that's it found that some for. the. tunes so fans and friends are so into.

johnny ferrari is skeptical he says there's no real political will to clean up see them through what about the law governing casinos in cambodia. along. this is the wild west my friend there are perhaps some regulations but they're not being enforced moneys thoughts. that's all it is. and he says crime in the city extends far beyond just online gaming. these casinos are just spots for money laundering what evidence do you have to because i've seen it but if you say have you seen the film casino the martin scorsese is there i have witnessed a man. walk into the cash room. put cash into the bag and walk out. inside. several times in the last year

cambodian airport police have busted chinese citizens bringing in soup cases stuffed with vast sums of money what does it say what does it tell you that some visitors coming into cambodia have been arriving here with suitcases full of millions of dollars in cash how is that possible well. we live in the kingdom of wonder and there are many things to be wonder about. cambodian office of transparency international a non-governmental organization that combats bribery and fraud he's concerned the recent arrests are just the tip of the iceberg. one can put this into perspective if such amount of money can be transported through the airport how much more money can be transported by land or by ship through the ports

and with corruption together with loopholes in the law enforcement mechanism it is very convenient for money launderers to look at cambodia as a destination that would be attractive to them. and obviously we have a chinese investors being the number one investor in the country and chinese investor is known to be also exporting corruption and money laundering to the world not just in cambodia. cole is not the only one concerned the united nations and the international monetary fund have called on the government to act up to cambodia was placed on a global money laundering watch list. but in this rapidly transforming city

danger doesn't only come from hardened criminals. with construction taking place at breakneck speed the pressure to build so quickly has proved fatal. last june 28 cambodian workers died when the 7 story building they were working on collapsed authorities had twice ordered the chinese contractor to stop work at the site because of safety concerns since then 40 more buildings have been condemned another 70 await inspection. by one high loan is a chinese tycoon with began bishop. so this is the casino floor. you know. he's building this $150000000.00 could see you know and hotel complex which he insists meets all safety standards. we're going to meddling with

our. you know but. and though. there was. a holiday on the seas the maybe that you. come here and he's a man in a hurry. he wants to open the doors within 8 months. or. so each and cause that low. this is the in. the on the we got sort of the other way around the country. creates is the. pin walk in. when we ask about the high crime rate here he says every city has its good and bad people and that many chinese are simply aren't familiar with cambodia's laws of us like how much money you can bring into the country was

a spoiler for me. don't. you are. you were. in which other union or might you want with. a vote you can copy about listen this issue. mr wong is partnering with one of my cows biggest casino operators sun city which is co developing a sprawling casino complex of the outskirts of town but sun city's boss alvin chow is in serious trouble he's reportedly been banned from entering australia as investigators probe his alleged links to organized crime. he was forced to make a public apology after a chinese state media accuse sun city of allegedly running illegal online gaming

operations to chinese gamble is in cambodia and the philippines chel to 9 is any wrongdoing the boss of sun city has been denied banned entry into australia because he's been accused of money laundering what do you think about those accusations you wouldn't see if it's in the. yes you know to cause. the good. to do. so the. war was. notorious macao underworld figure one point koyo is also chatting up in cambodia. better known as broken tooth he served 14 years in prison for a string of crimes including illegal gambling loan sharking and leading the 14 k.

try again. when he launched a new gaming cryptocurrency last year in known penn one high long was there in support. broken tooth has also reportedly offered to provide protection for chinese businesses. the woman. get. along with paulson and. one guy who you know has said he can provide that sort of security is he the solution. there when she. or.

despite broken tooth criminal past top military officials and senior cambodian leaders including this deputy prime minister have lined up to welcome a. company spokesman. says the government has formed a committee to prevent officials interacting with such figures we are afraid. we afraid for between their offices as well as the government. do you think it's appropriate that senior government figures should pose with such figures. we don't know. so that was a mistake that a mistake. that they are what the north of the lamb on the scene of a young activist when x.

made a career of exposing government mistakes and. an outspoken critic of an act was thrown in jail for 5 months after investigating powerful government figures. today he's taking us into the country's 1st marine national park. to see a casino project he finds particularly scandalous. on a day like this the island of cole wrong son loam is picture perfect. is a forest but what the chinese do right now it is they did try to change. their natural place. perched just meters from the shoreline is what used to be a busy chinese casino operators were ordered to close it in march after the naacp and his group. expose them pumping rule sewage into these protected waters new used

to have their lies and. their lies and. so to be clear this because you know was an authorized its license that expired and it was pumping into these waters yet and they barely. but rather than face prosecution the owners have instead been granted a license to build another casino just behind the existing one. they'll soon be back in business in cambodia everything is possible. crime corruption and construction this is the new c n n. and it begs the question who's really winning cambodia's great

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