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. …
