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Coronavirus is crushing Cambodia's dreams of oil wealth

Barrel price has fallen low and economic difficulties are mounting

William Pesek
| Cambodia
A signing ceremony between Cambodian government and KrisEnergy in August 2017: the country is pinning its hopes on the Singapore-based company.   © Reuters

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

It is almost as if COVID-19 were specially designed to wreck Cambodia's 2020.

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