By: Leo Jegho
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Global Indonesian Voices
With urban growth averaging 4.4 percent annually, it is predicted that 68 percent of Indonesia’s population will live in cities over the coming 10 years.
Jakarta, GIVnews.com – Indonesia’s total population is currently about
"This is the last piece of land where we can feed our reindeer."
In West-Siberia’s Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, a region of the size of France, where much of Russia’s crude oil is extracted, a new conflict between indigenous Khanty reindeer herders and the powerful oil producers is
The World Bank estimates that by 2025 Indonesia will have 68 percent of its population living in cities or urban communities. As such, Indonesia’s cities are among the fastest growing cities in the world. However, without a unified spatial data system, urban planning is a daunting task while
Written by Thierry Berger and Lorenzo Cotula from IIED, this short report summarises comments and recommendations on the draft land Code in Chad (January 2014 version). In addition to an analysis of the draft Code in light of international trends, this note draws on earlier reports concerning the
By: Asit Ranjan Mishra
Date: October 7th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Chandrababu Naidu, at the India Economic Summit, said he wants to make Andhra Pradesh’s capital Amaravati, one of the top five cities in the world
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By: Owen Guo
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: New York Times
BEIJING — The Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that they had executed a farmer convicted of killing a village official after the demolition of the farmer’s home, despite months of public outcry in sympathy with the farmer.
By: Chea Vannak
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Khmer Times
The collective land of indigenous communities in Cambodia will continue to face encroachment from economic land concessions and the actions of private companies in the future despite the Cambodian Government’s moratorium on granting ELC
By: Katy Migiro
Date: 29 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Recently married with a one-year-old child, Joan Moraa Mbogo dreams of escaping Kenya's noisy, dirty, crime-ridden capital and buying a home close to her mother's newly-built apartment overlooking the Lukenya Hills.
By: Kate Ravilious
Date: August 8th 2016
Source: Environmental Research Web
By: Darshan Kunwar|
Date: August 20th 2016
Source: The Times of India
DEHRADUN: Three weeks after the state government issued an order granting ownership rights to 2,500 families living in 123 slums and low-lying localities, chief minister Harish Rawat on Saturday said that the process to