As European leaders try to save the euro, uncertainty about fallout in Cambodia if they don’t succeed
It’s after midnight in Sihanoukville and British teenagers are clogging the walkways, pushing past one another to drain free shots at the bars. In Kep, elderly French tourists sun themselves at the upscale Sailing Club while Spaniards and Germans eye the offerings at Phnom Penh’s Central Market. In spite of the growing fears in Europe about the sovereign debt crisis that could see the bloc’s economies tumbling down like a house of cards should Greece leave the currency union, at the moment, Cambodia appears untouched. European tourists keep coming; European brands like H&M keep buying clothing made in the Kingdom’s garment factories . Still, while the eurozone has been given at least a temporarily reprieve by the most recent elections in Greece, the future of the common currency is far from certain…
