Malaysian states that offer land in strategic locations for free or at a nominal premium rate will be given priority by the government in the construction of people’s housing projects

Lao villagers worry that compensation for Pak Beng Dam will be too low

India discovered an enormous deposit of lithium in Jammu and Kashmir regions

There will be no new land clearing or deforestation for oil palm plantations, says Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.

Minister pledges to "beat up" land mafia in Indonesia

Egypt may allocate special area of land to India in Suez Canal Economic Zone

The government awarded a new Economic Land Concession (ELC) in March 2022 for the first time in nearly a decade and despite an existing moratorium on ELCs

  Experts call for stronger land use planning as extent of Indonesian forest lost  to coal mining is revealed

Sri Lanka’s agriculture authorities are planning to grab 14,000 acres of paddy

The project on Promoting Responsible Governance of Investment in Land (RGIL) organized a Training of Trainers (ToT) on responsible land investment for 29 experts drawn from federal institutions, civil society organizations and investor associations. 

Attempts to re-expropriate assets of Sri Lanka’s privatized commercial plantations on the pretext of being under-utilized will undermine property rights and discourage investors, officials and analysts said.

The widespread popularity of chocolate has led to a cocoa boom in the DRC, escalating deforestation in the country’s primary forests by impoverished locals in the war-torn region.