Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has given the green light for the military to return more than 150,000 acres of seized farmland to the original owners, a deputy minister for defence has told parliament. Major General Kyaw Nyunt told Pyidaungsu Hluttaw representatives on F...

The Myanmar government has returned some 385 acres (156 hectares) of land out of 1,081 acres, confiscated by the Ministry of Defence, to 82 farmers in Tachileik, the country's eastern Shan state, Xinhua reported. Other 696 acres of such land have also been given back to the Shan state government....

Myanmar’s military said Wednesday that it has been returning to its rightful owners all unused lands it confiscated for decades from farmers, according to a RFA report a day after a damning report by a human rights group said the country’s civilian government had largely failed to deliver on a pledg...

Projects proposed on land considered fallow by the government’s new law worry residents of Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region. Locals are concerned after some investors applied for a large construction project on a beach located on an island in Tanintharyi Region. “There are many fishermen in our re...