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Lao NA inspection unearths over 150 duplicate land titles
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Some 153 land titles have been found to be duplicates as a result of the National Assembly’s recent inspection, a senior lawmaker has confirmed.Landholders attempted to use the duplicate land titles as collateral to obtain loans from banks and other financial ...
Somsack Pongkhao
http://annx.asianews.network/content/na-inspection-unearths-over-150-duplicate-land-titles-98244
Lao Authorities Allow Chinese Firm to Plant on Land Promised to Dam Collapse Survivors
A Chinese-backed firm is growing bananas on land promised by the government of Laos as compensation to survivors of a 2018 dam collapse that that has been described as the country’s worst flooding in decades, RFA’s Lao Service has learned.The disaster occurred last July, when ...
RFA’s Lao Service
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/laos-bananas-on-survivor-land-05292019154355.html
Laos Silent About Villager's Jail Death as Exile Rights Groups Demand Answers
Exile Lao human rights groups on Friday pressed the Vientiane government to investigate the death in custody last month of Lao villager who had been detained since 2011 over a land protest in the country’s Salavan province.The government has been silent so far on the ...
City halts land transactions around Lao National University
Vientiane authorities have frozen land sales and transfers in Dongdok village and surrounding areas after the National University of Laos filed a claim stating that it had the legal right to own and regulate the area.Director of the Vientiane Natural Resources and Environment Department, Mr ...
Ekaphone Phouthonesy
Chinese Banana Plantations in Lao District Leave Locals With Little Land to Farm
Concessions of land made by the government of Laos to Chinese banana farms are leaving villagers in one northern district without enough land of their own to feed their families, sources in the communist Southeast Asian country say.In the Beng district of Oudomxay province in ...
RFA’s Lao Service
Laos, Thailand seeks ways to improve land management
Representatives of the Lao and Thai governments are meeting in Vientiane to discuss land management with the aim of strengthening the regulations and preventing the misuse of land in Laos.More ...
Phomphong Laoin
App-facilitated Land Tax Payment Service Launched
(KPL) The Department of Tax has launched a system that ensures land tax payment isbank-based, safe, and fast.More ...
KPL editor
NA defers approval of amended Land Law
The National Assembly (NA) has yet to approve a draft amendment to the Land Law, pointing out the need for further refinement to address all its deficiencies.More ...
Somxay Sengdara
New Laos land law could block customary rights, women's titles: analysts
VIENTIANE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new land law may bring greater transparency in land management and modernization of records in Laos, but it could also curb ownership by women, as well as the customary rights of rural and indigenous people, analysts said.The long-delayed legislation ...
Rina Chandran
