Kingdom of Cambodia's UK Casino Online Boom Town, Created By Chinese Money | The New Silk Road | CNA Insider

Chinese money has transformed the once-sleepy backpacker destination of Sihanoukville, Kingdom of Cambodia into a gambling resort hub with 30 casinos, in addition to 70 more being built. It’s touted as the “New Macau”.

But all that new wealth is eluding many local Cambodian businesses – which are being shunted aside.

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It was a legendary trading route that for thousands of years connected Europe with Asia, in addition to ancient Rome with Ancient China. Known as the Silk Road, it stretched through some of the most rugged terrain in the world 2000 years ago.

Now modern China is building a new Silk Road. The New Silk Road, also known as the ane Belt ane Road program, is a hugely ambitious initiative launched by Presdent Xi Jinping in 2013. It will link up over 65 countries in addition to 4.4 billion people. That is about 60 percent of the world’s population.

Channel NewsAsia’s documentary team has travelled across the globe to 7 regions to investigate what the Silk Road means for individuals, companies in addition to countries. The epic journey will take viewers from the future ports of China to naval bases in the Philippines, to safaris in Africa, wushu schools in Iran in addition to ghettos in Greece.

The program received an Award for Best Documentary (International Affairs) at the New York Festivals.