By Richard Finney
Source: Radio Free Asia
Harsh restrictions imposed on Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya minority continued during the final year of that country’s rule by a nominally civilian but military-backed party, while government troops acted with impunity in abusing noncombatants in conflict…
Date: 23 avril 2016
Source: Le Courrier du Vietnam
Interviewé par l’Agence Vietnamienne d’Information, le directeur général adjoint du Département général de la gestion foncière Dào Trung Chinh a présenté des résultats plutôt encourageants pour 2015. Mais des efforts doivent encore être…
By: Associated Press
Date: May 28th 2016
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican / Associated Press
SOC TRANG, Vietnam — When the rice shoots began to wither on Lam Thi Loi’s farm in the heart of the Mekong Delta, a usually verdant region of Vietnam, she faced a hard choice: Let them die in the parched…
By: By Ham Yen - translated by Uyen Phuong
Date: June 12th 2016
Source: SGGP English
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors yesterday approved US$310 million to help Vietnam build climate resilience and ensure sustainable livelihoods of 1.2 million people living in nine Mekong Delta…
By: VNS
Date: June 12th 2016
Source: Vietnam.net Bridge
VietNamNet Bridge – Public property tasks, rights and responsibilities need to be clarified, according to Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.
“The law should clarify the public property management rights and responsibilities of the National…
Date: 17 juin 2016
Source: Eglasie.mepasie.org
Dans la nuit du 16 au 17 juin 2016, les religieuses de Saint-Paul le Chartres se sont aperçues qu’une grande quantité de matériaux et d’instruments de travail avait été déposée sur un terrain qui est légalement leur propriété et qu’elles seules…
“Bringing Land Governance into ASEAN Economic Integration”
The G8 World Summit in 2003 stated that “Weak land governance and property rights systems can lead to opaque land deals.” It further states that “increasing security of land rights and transparency of land governance fosters participation…
By: Ron Corben & Bryan Lynn
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: VOA
An international human rights organization says Southeast Asia is facing increasing conflicts and violence over land grab activity. A “land grab” relates to taking land quickly, forcefully and often illegally.
In this case, the…
By: May Titthara
Date: August 19th 2016
Source: Khmer Times
Provincial officials in Rattanakiri rejected a request by the Vietnamese government to allow them to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district after a meeting between both sides in Banlung City on Tuesday.
Despite…
By: Viet Ha & Roseanne Gerin
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Radio Free Asia
About 300 Vietnamese police evicted farmers from their land in a village on the outskirts of the country’s capital Hanoi on Tuesday, though there have been no reports of detentions or injuries, a local resident said…
Date: 20 September 2016
Source: RFA
A court in Hanoi sentenced a land rights activist to nearly two years in prison on Tuesday for her role in protesting government-sanctioned evictions that are being used to clear the way for commercial real estate developments in Vietnam.
Can Thi Theu was…
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GRONINGEN (21 September, 2016) — Land has become a key issue on the global…