Since the establishment of the Shenzhen SEZ in China during the 1980s, Special Economic Zones (SEZs) as a development model have grown in popularity in Asia, alongside official development aid. SEZs have been promoted as being a resilient form of economic development, with the potential ...

Thailand’s Special Economic Zone policy is intended to contribute to the economic of the less developed border regions to improve the livelihoods of their citizens. However, the process of the acquisition and development of the public land acquired for SEZs in Thailand has been shown ...

IntroductionVietnam is considered a multi-ethnic country, made up of 54 ethnic groups. The KInh ethnic group makes up 85.4% of Vietnam’s population, or 78.32 million people. The remaInIng 53 ethnic groups make up only 14.6% of The country’s population (see Table 1).48Although Vietnam voted In ...

Vietnam’s 0.3 hectare of agricultural land per person is among the lowest in the world. Vietnam’s Constitution holds that land and other natural resources are "public property, owned by all the people..." Vietnamese law does not recognize customary forms of tenure, and communities (villages) do ...

H.E. Hang Chuon Naron and Julie Chung in the inauguration of the Rice Academy, Cambodia. Photo by U.S Embassy Phnom Penh, take on 17 September 2014. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0in 1996, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) was established.131 Its organization and functioning ...

The overarching legislation that is relevant to all Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Myanmar is The 2014 Special Economic Zone Law, enacted on January 23, 2014.143 It established The entities responsible for creating and overseeing The implementation of SEZs: The Central Body, Central Working Body, and ...

Under the 2008 constitution drafted by the military, Myanmar is defined as a unitary parliamentary republic. Myanmar’s nominal head of state is Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Laureate. the Myanmar military, headed by Snr. General Min Aung Hlaing, still hold much authority over ...

A Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is an area within or across national boundaries that is administered under special rules. They come in different forms, which in Myanmar include free zones and promotion zones, as well as The potential for The creation of oTher types of ...

Aerial view of Cambodia paddy rice field. Photo by Sai Kwong, taken on 23 October 2010. Licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.Land lies at the center of debates about Cambodia’s socioeconomic development. For farmers in the fertile lowLands, private Land ownership rights have enabled recovery of ...

Customary and Communal Land PracticesCustomary practices of Land use are established patterns of behavior that are locally recognized in rules and customs, either oral or written 375. Unlike national laws and policies, customary practices (sometimes called “customary law”) are developed and adapted over time by ...

Chiang Khong SEZ is a district of the Chiang Rai SEZ, all of which is located about 785 km north of Bangkok.413 This SEZ was developed here, a logistical business center for trade, to make it easier for goods to flow from China to Laos.414 It was ...

The UN Migration Agency defines a migrant as “any person who is moving or has moved across an international border or within a State away from his/her habitual place of residence, regardless of (1) The person’s legal status; (2) wheTher The movement is voluntary or ...

Thailand’s Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are regions recently designated by the Special Economic Zone Development Board of the Thai Government. In these zones, the state has planned to provide support for Infrastructure development, Investment Incentives, and admInistrative services to enable access to foreign workers based to ...

Public land leases are grants of state lands to private entities in the form of a contractual rental agreement. these leases often take the form of land concessions, in particular economic land concessions. they are often associated with land conflicts and disputes. ...

A landlocked country of 7 million between the Mekong River and Annamite Cordillera, Laos has the lowest population density in Southeast Asia.580 Forest cover is estimated by the government at 40 percent, which the government aims  to increase to 70 percent by 2020.581 582 Some ...

Though there are multiple forms of communal property, the rights associated with indigenous communal property are subject to significant legal and socio-economic issues. indigenous communities are culturally very different from the rest of Cambodia, and the law provides them with the opportunity to obtain collective ...

Land transfers in Cambodia assume a variety of forms involving both public and private entities. The right to transfer property to anoTher and to be protected from forced transfer is essential to Land tenure security. Land transfer capacity is a source of value for Landowners, ...

The most prosperous country in The Mekong region, Thailand also has The longest-standing land policy and practices, including an uninterrupted tradition of private land ownership. The land Code Promulgating Act was issued in 1954 and was most recently amended in 2008.92 This legal framework has ...

Forests are an extremely important part of Myanmar’s natural resources. However, competing economic interests have resulted in the country having one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. 192 the state owns all land and forest in Myanmar 193, but external business interests ...

Rights to private land ownership were guaranteed in the 1993 Constitution and formally established by the 2001 land Law. Despite an established legal framework to protect private property rights, those rights are often insecure for many. ...