2015 Elections Land Lead Story News Pegu Division
More than 400 candidates from three new political parties devoted to representing Burma’s farmers will contest seats in the upcoming November election.
Irrawaddy Division Land Lead Story News
Local farmers from the Irrawaddy delta staged a protest rally on Friday, demanding the return of land they claim was confiscated in 1999-2000.
Police have arrested and charged around two dozen people for squatting in a protected forest in Karen State.
Saha Group, Thailand’s leading consumer product conglomerate, has scrapped plans to set up an industrial estate in Burma, citing high land prices.
A Farmers in Nattalin, Pegu Division turned out in their hundreds to demand the return of land seized by the Burmese army 25 years ago.
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Burma’s National Land Use Policy must first address the discrepancies between protecting vulnerable peoples’ land use rights and claims before creating an enabling investment environment.
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A coalition of ethnic NGOs says the draft National Land Use Policy is flawed because it overlooks traditional shifting agricultural practices in Burma.
Rangoon’s divisional government will confiscate land from individuals who have purchased more than 4,000 acres of industrial zone land without operating businesses there.
Eight farmers jailed for staging a plough protest on military-confiscated land in Sagaing Division’s Kanbalu Township are now facing additional charges for trespassing.
Farmers in Tenasserim Division’s Tavoy [Dawei] received various sentences for clashing with government officials over a land confiscation case earlier this year.
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Local authorities have demolished 50 huts belonging to squatters on the banks of the Irrawaddy in Mandalay Division.
A four-day regional development workshop responding to the challenges posed by drugs and environmental degradation has concluded in Shan State
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A protest camp of over 100 residents of the Rangoon suburb of Michaungkan has been forcibly dispersed from their sit-in location at Maha Bandula Park in the former capital.
Shan State Chief Minister Sao Aung Myat said he believes all seized lands will be returned to farmers in his region before the end of the year.
Three farmers are injured in Pegu where police broke up a protest site of about 100 locals who had been demanding the return of farmland they say was confiscated by the army in 2000.
Tensions are high in Rangoon’s Dagon Port township after authorities cordoned off a piece of disputed property claimed by local farmers last Friday
The Zaykabar company, which has been locked in legal disputes with farmers in Rangoon division, has slammed a defamation lawsuit against a political party’s chairman who is providing the affected group with legal aid
June 1, 2009 (DVB), An appeal for a renowned lawyer jailed after helping Burmese farmers complain to the United Nations of land confiscation by the military was last week rejected[…]
Environment Features (OLD) Politics
Rosalie SmithApr 23, 2009 (DVB), In the last two decades Burma has aggressively expanded its military, doubling army personnel to the point where now there is one troop for every[…]
Environment Features (OLD) Politics
Rosalie SmithApr 23, 2009 (DVB), In the last two decades Burma has aggressively expanded its military, doubling army personnel to the point where now there is one troop for every[…]
Apr 21, 2009 (DVB), Fertile farmland is being confiscated by the government and converted to army barracks, outposts and training sites as Burma's military increases in size, says a report[…]
Apr 10, 2009 (DVB), Restrictions in movement imposed by the Burmese military on Mon villagers in Tenasserim division are forcing local cashew growers to neglect their farmland and incur a[…]
Feb 17, 2009 (DVB), Farmers in Rangoon’s New Dagon Port township were disappointed to be given a very small amount of compensation for the more than 6000 acres of farmlands[…]
Feb 6, 2009 (DVB), Grassroots activist Than Soe, who helped local farmers in Magwe's Aung Lan township report land seizures, has gone into hiding after being threatened with arrest by[…]
Feb 3, 2009 (DVB), More than 20 acres of farmland in Setoketaya township, Magwe division, have been confiscated to build a road to a defence materiel factory six miles outside[…]
Jan 29, 2009 (DVB), Authorities in the port district of New Dagon township in Rangoon division have confiscated more than 6000 acres of paddy fields and driven farmers and animals[…]
Jan 27, 2009 (DVB), A representative of the International Labour Organisation has the ILO is concerned by the recent sentencing of labour activist Zaw Htay after he helped farmers in[…]
Jan 16, 2009 (DVB), Local farmers from Tawwi in Bago division’s Nyaunlaypin township have complained that a monk named Dhamma Pala has seized their land to build a pagoda. A[…]
Jan 9, 2009 (DVB), Residents of Meikhtila’s Yadanar Maung ward have complained that a local Peace and Development Council official has been selling unregistered land near a local creek for[…]
Jan 8, 2009 (DVB), Lawyer Pho Phyu, who is well known for representing political activists, has complained of being harassed by local authorities when he went to Nat Mauk township[…]
