September 3, 2010The Diplomat
By Ulara Nakagawa
Image credit: Davidlohr Bueso
It isn’t the likeliest place to house Asia’s tallest building, but Cambodia has officially made it known that it plans to build a skyscraper that stands 1,820 feet (555 metres) high in its capital city of Phnom Penh. The slightly ‘off’ nature of this news hasn’t gone unnoticed by many. The Associated Press, for instance, states (with a hint of irony?) that the new structure will stand in ‘a dusty city of colonial villas (and) slums,’ while Reuters points out that ‘real estate companies questioned whether there was much demand for a building half a kilometre high in the capital of one of Asia's poorest countries.’ For full article, please visit The Diplomat.
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