Land
Land tenure and land titling
Central Highlands up efforts to prevent soil degradation
The degradation of soil in the Central Highlands has increased, impacting production and ethnic minority groups, according to Nguyen Dinh Ky, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Geography Association. According to Ky, degraded soil is mainly caused by deforestation, the loss of natural plant layers, the farming ...
Govt demarcates new mandates for ministries, adopts revenue collection measures
According to the new assignments at the government’s monthly meeting for May in Vientiane from May 24-25, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry takes sole management for all kinds of forest. The Ministry of Energy and Mines takes sole management mandate for all mining. Land management ...
Kratie farmers petition government over land dispute
Five days after Kratie provincial authorities bulldozed some of the homes of 104 families they accuse of living on state land in Chhlong district, about 60 residents delivered petitions around Phnom Penh on March 15, calling for the release of three men who were allegedly ...
NLD compiles land-grab lists
Amid indications that the incoming National League for Democracy government will take up the issue of land-grabs, the party’s Mandalay Region has begun compiling a list of farmland seized unlawfully in the region. “We are collecting data on farmland disputes. It will be up to the ...
Military MP calls for new terms on ‘cheap’ land leases
US$54 a year for prime space in a high-end shopping centre; $3850 a year for a 553-acre golf course; $4625 a year for a hotel on 1.6 acres of land: These are just some of the cut-price rates for state-owned land that have been revealed ...
Cambodian Government pledges to step up land titling pace
The government 19 October vowed to finish distributing all land titles currently under consideration by 2020. In a speech, Im Chhun Lim said the government was committed to improving land security in Cambodia in its bid to address issues ranging from poverty to deforestation. Keep reading ...
Lao authorities vow to tackle fake land titles
Lao authorities have vowed to take further action to inspect and address fake land titles after discovering that some fraudsters have produced fake titles to guarantee and secure finance from informal financial sources. Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Mr Sisavath Vithaxay warned the informal ...
Lao Ministry reaffirms plan to issue 400,000 land titles by 2020
Land management authorities will pursue their plan to issue 400,000 land titles over the next five years until 2020, the Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment has said. Statistics show there are 2.6 million land plots across the country including 1.8 million for which land ...
Rights group asks for land data sharing
Rights group Licadho has called on the government to make available statistics on the full extent of economic land concessions in response to data collected by the organisation over five years. Keep reading ...
Report finds economic land concessions affected 17K families
Community representatives, civil society organisations and opposition members have urged the government for more urgent action to resolve land disputes following the release of annual data showing that all 24 provinces were affected in 2014, with hundreds of cases still unresolved. The call came at the launch ...
