In reality, they run online gambling and scam businesses.

A Lanzhou noodle shop in Chinatown open to the public, with iron grilles demarcating spaces for visitors and compound residents.Ī Sihanoukville local told Zaobao that there are more than 30 such compounds in Sihanoukville operating under the guise of a technology industrial park or economic/trade centre. Shops on the ground floor of the buildings are closed, while the few stores open to the public segregate visitors and compound residents. Within the compound, there are restaurants, clinics, salons and KTV lounges, but these facilities are mostly only open to company employees. Surveillance cameras are everywhere and the two entry/exit points are manned by armed guards. The outside world cannot peek in and those inside seem to have no way out. It looks like any other nondescript commercial area, except for its high barbed wire fences. Less than 200 metres away lies “Chinatown”, the base camp of Sihanoukville’s notorious scam ring.Ĭhinatown is one of Sihanoukville’s biggest industrial compounds with over 20 ten-storey buildings. But the mirage vanishes as soon as they turn around. Walking along Otres Beach, a tourist destination in Cambodia’s Sihanoukville, visitors are lulled by the beautiful sky and sea into thinking they are at a holiday resort.

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