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Phnom Penh - A blue sheet-metal fence around an old building in Phnom Penh is a bad omen for those keen on Cambodia's dwindling stock of colonial architecture.
"The presence of these fences is a worrying sign," says one architectural historian, "because when these fences go up it normally means the buildings are going to come down."
The historian, who has lived in Cambodia for 16 years but does not want his name used, says the pace of destruction has accelerated in recent years.
"It is speeding up, and it has almost gone past the point of no return," he says. "I would think that more than half of the buildings I can remember as being important have now gone in 16 years."
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