Student surveyors home for holidays
After months spent surveying land for an ambitious land-titling project, thousands of student volunteers have been granted a short reprieve to return home over the Pchum Ben holiday, the prime minister announced yesterday. At a graduation ceremony in the capital yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said that the 139 groups of some 2,000 students who had been deployed mid-year to help demarcate land as the first step to awarding tens of thousands of titles would be awarded a few days off. ... The government began sending the volunteer students, adorned in military fatigues, across the country on June 28 to measure 1.2 million hectares of land for 350,000 families as part of a national land-titling scheme Hun Sen announced amid mounting unrest over land grabbing. ...
