Land titles sought in Kompong Thom
The Kampong Thom provincial governor issued a letter on Tuesday to villagers living in Santuk district, ordering them to provide documentation confirming their ownership of land they reportedly “purchased” from brokers after it had already been assigned to relocated families, officials said yesterday. Deputy district governor Som Vanthorn said about 1,750 families who relocated to Thmor Samleang village, in Kraya commune, in 2009 had received 20m by 40m plots of land for their homes, but that only 77 families of disabled military veterans had received the promised hectare of farmland that was to come with each plot…
