France's foreign minister said an African Union-led plan was the only viable way to end fighting among rival factions in the Central African Republic, pushing back Monday against an alternative peace process steered by Russia. "There is no alternative that is either desirable or is likely to succeed...

More than 3000 acres of farmlands that were confiscated for the Mandalay international airport project at Tada-U Township were returned to their farmer-owners. Vice President U Henry Van Thio gave temporary land use certificate, commonly referred to as Form 3, to farmers who were original owners ...

The Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement has set to finalize a strategic plan which is designed to implement the country’s National Youth Policy. “After strategic plan for Youth Policy is completed, the ministry will implement it in stages. We will start this year,” said union mini...

The policy and law will give farmers a better chance of securing the return of their land, he said. The government released a draft of its national land-use policy in October 2014. It is likely to be approved by cabinet in the first half of this year and will be followed by a land-use law, which ...

U Min Thu, deputy minister of the President’s Office, has been nominated as minister of the Office of the Union Government. A letter from the president nominating U Min Thu was read in the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (bicameral parliament) on November 19. The appointment would fill a vacancy left when ...

The government has approved the seizure of more than 950,000 acres of unused vacant, fallow and virgin land that had been leased to private entities for agriculture, breeding and mining, a senior agriculture official said on Wednesday. U Myo Tint Tun, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand – The six-month window for the registration of vacant, fallow and virgin land for the use of agribusiness in accordance with the newly amended Vacant, Fallow and Virgin (VFV) Land Management Law will come to a close on March 11. One month after the amended law was passed by t...

The Government of the Republic of Zambia, Embassy of Japan, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a landmark joint initiative to strengthen resilience and improve livelihoods for host communities and refugees in Zambia’s ...