Chinese investment sparks rise of Mandarin in Cambodia

Sihanoukville has been the biggest recipient of Chinese investment into Cambodia, where President Xi Jinping will arrive Thursday. "Every province has Chinese investors," said Um Keangseng, who founded his school a decade ago to address the market for skilled communicators. "There are Chinese businesses everywhere," he said, to the point where "Chinese and English are both equally important". Um Keangseng's Tai Zhong No.2 School has more than 400 part-time students, from elementary to college age...