“I feel sad when our fields have been changed into a lake for the purpose of breeding fish. Since that happened, I became a worker in another field,” said Aye Thein. The 64-year-old was forced to abandon his eight acres of land in 1999 after it was confiscated by the Myanmar Billion Group company in Audsu village of Nyaungdon Township, Irrawaddy Division.

...Beginning in December 2010, Burmese Navy Unit No. 43, under the
command of Ka Dike-based government navy regional command head
quarters, began to confiscate the rubber plantations and household plots of
villagers on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island, Yebyu Township, Tennaserim
Division. Since then, all land on which red signboards were placed by the
navy has been confiscated. This report documents the confiscation of over
1,000 acres of land on Kywe Thone Nyi Ma Island. However, HURFOM found

Commentary: Confiscation and Extortion...
Forcible rice procurement continues in Kaeng - Tung...
Confiscation of rice fields in Kaeng-Tung...
Farmland confiscated for building new military base in Kun-Hing...
Confiscation of rice fields in Murng – Nai...
Leased rice field threatened to be forcibly taken, rent not paid in full, in Murng - Ton...
Houses forcibly taken in Murng-Ton...
Extortion of money from travelers worsens in Kun-Hing...
People forced to pay for election expenses long after poll, in Kaeng-Tung...

Commentary: Confiscation and Extortion...
Situation of land confiscation...
Confiscation of cultivated land for state infrastructure in Murng-Nai and Kaeng- Tung...
Land confiscated for reselling in Murng-Pan...
Rice fields confiscated and cultivated by military using forced labour, in Murng - Pan...
Situation of abuses related to civilian vehicles...
Confiscation of civilian vehicles in Nam-Zarng,Ta-Khi-Laek and Kaeng-Tung...
Confiscation of civilian motorcycles in Loi-Lem...

...This briefer focuses on the impacts of two of Burma’s largest energy projects, led
by Chinese, South Korean, and Indian multinational corporations in partnership with the
state-owned Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), Burmese companies, and Burmese
state security forces. The projects are the Shwe Natural Gas Project and the Burma-China
oil transport project, collectively referred to here as the “Burma-China pipelines.” The
pipelines will transport gas from Burma and oil from the Middle East and Africa across

Este ensayo explora la recepción de la expropiación petrolera mexicana de 1938 en la diplomacia y opinión pública sudamericanas. Estudia la propaganda, difusión y recepción de la cuestión petrolera mexicana en la coyuntura de la expropiación, concentrando el análisis en los países del Cono Sur y en Bolivia. Presenta una revisión sintética de sus repercusiones en la diplomacia y la prensa, así como un breve seguimiento de las reacciones políticas y expresiones de adhesión en las calles sudamericanas ante este acontecimiento.

Article 1

"This Regulation is formulated for purposes of regulating the expropriation of buildings on state-owned land and corresponding compensation, maintaining public interests and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of owners of the buildings to be expropriated."

In Latvia the construction of new transport infrastructure objects or reconstruction of existing ones increasingly generates necessity to expand an area of land under auto roads (right of way), as well as activates necessity of efficiency of real property expropriation process. In frame of research the correlation between expropriated land and total area of affected land parcels have been analyzed in two different projects of road development – project of new road and project of road reconstruction.

A multinational corporation engages in foreign direct investment for the extraction of a natural resource in a developing country. The corporation bears the initial investment and earns as a return a share of the profits. The host country provides access and guarantees conditions of operation. Since the investment is totally sunk, the corporation must account in its plan not only for uncertainty in market conditions but also for the threat of nationalization.

Esta investigación analiza el proceso histórico de expropriación de los colonos agricultores que vivian dentro del Parque Nacional de Iguazú (PNI) en el Oeste de Paraná, que se produjo en la década de 1970. En este sentido, investiga las memórias y dinámicas socioculturales relacionados con la institución del parque como una zona de protección ambiental.

From the document's preface: "This draft Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) sets out the general principles and policies to be followed in connection with any land acquisition and resultant resettlement which will occur during the implementation of the proposed Irrigation Restoration and Development Project scheduled to commence in 2011.

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