Chinese investment in Sihanoukville has intensified, with investors snapping up properties in Ochheuteal Beach and putting pressure on local and Western-owned businesses.

When Craig Warren and his partners opened Mick & Craig’s Guesthouse in 2002 there were only a handful of buildings – a dive shack and some traditional Khmer houses – on the heavily potholed track that provided access to Ochheuteal Beach. For 16 years the entry road, which runs from the Golden Lions roundabout over a low-slung hill to the beach, has been a conduit of change.

Today, now wider and coated in asphalt, it is one of Sihanoukville’s busiest and most developed tourist strips, lined with hotels, restaurants, bars and travel shops.https://www.phnompenhpost.com/supplements-post-property/chinese-property-hunters-flood-ochheuteal-beach