Two Thousand More Students to Measure Land
Following a ceremony to honor late King Father Norodom Sihanouk on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich, more than 2,000 additional student volunteers were deployed yesterday morning by the Ministry of Land Management to measure plots of land in 19 provinces, officials said. … Mr. Chhun Lim [Land Management Minister] said that so far, student volunteers have measured about 310,000 hectares of land and will eventually measure 1.8 million hectares. He said that the ministry will train about another 1,000 new volunteers beginning in November. … But Ny Chakrya, head of monitoring at rights group Adhoc, said the initiative is being used to boost the ruling party’s popularity ahead of next year’s election. …
