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Al Jazeera
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Andrew Haffner

As Cambodia launches $36.6bn building drive, China, Japan fight for spoils

Cambodia is aiming to becoming a high-income nation by 2050 [Paula Bronstein/Getty Images]

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Cambodia is pushing for an infrastructural renaissance, but it will need some help from its friends abroad to chip away at an estimated price tag of $36.6bn.

That was the final sum calculated by the Cambodian government and published earlier this year in a 174-project master plan that would overhaul the national transportation and logistics network within an ambitious timeframe of just a decade.

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