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....