Vietnam

Lao authorities have released a villager held since 2017 for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company, but 11 others remain in detention, with another reported to have died in custody last year.

One of Australia’s largest pastoral empires has sold three properties in its portfolio spanning more than 740,00ha to a Vietnamese investment group in a deal understood to be worth $135 million.

A 3,552 ha land concession in XiengKhuang province will be granted to Lao-Jagro Development XiengKhuang Co, which is 51% owned by the Vietnamese dairy company Vinamilk.

A civil society organization in Laos has called on the government to proceed with its case against ten villagers jailed for more than a year over a land dispute in a transparent manner and demanded an update on their health conditions in prison.

Lao villagers being refused compensation by Vietnam-owned rubber company, which says the land belongs not to the villagers but to the state. The villagers signed agreement on 2009 to leased their land under promise they'll secured work and profit sharing with the company, but haven't received anything until now.

Vinamilk’s general director informed shareholders that the company had found a Japanese partner to build a certified organic dairy farm in Laos

“No leasing land to China even for one day,” read a banner hoisted during the recent protests.

Companies acquired concessions amounting to the size of a small European country, while rural residents of Southeast Asia’s Mekong region saw their landholdings shrink or disappear over the past two decades

The Weekly Times has compiled a list of more than 900 properties, and their owners, who range from family farms to domestic and international corporate and investment institutions. The result? The big are getting bigger.

Le Cambodge souhaite que les entreprises vietnamiennes spécialisées dans la production de noix de cajou viennent investir au Cambodge dans la culture d’anacardiers sur ses terres agricoles appropriées au développement de cet arbre.

PHI Group, Inc, a company investing globally in agriculture and farmland, signs an agreement to set up a bank fund in Luxembourg to provide financing for the Company’s and its clients’ projects.

The company has plans to build three livestock complexes with a total head of 15,000 cattle and a milk processing plant with a capacity of up to 60,000 metric tons of dairy products per year.