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19 March 2023
Local government development minister Nga Kor Ming says this is to enable the government to optimise the allocation for building homes.
Main photo: Pasar Tok Kenali in Kota Bharu was officially opened by Nga Kor Ming today. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: States that offer land in strategic locations…
24 February 2023
KUALA LUMPUR: There will be no new land clearing or deforestation for oil palm plantations, says Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.
He said the government was committed to maintaining the status quo of current land use for the purpose of oil palm plantations.
“There is no new land…
19 February 2023
Main photo: Rimba Disclosure Project says forest land is being openly advertised for sale online. (Facebook pic)
PETALING JAYA: An independent forest monitoring watchdog has expressed shock that forest reserve land is being openly advertised for sale online every week.
While it did not say if there…
12 January 2023
Main photo: Members of the Orang Asli Seletar tribe with their lawyers at the Court of Appeal this morning.
PUTRAJAYA: An Orang Asli Seletar tribe in Johor, whose ancestral land was taken and sold to developers, will be relocated on new land to be gazetted for their settlement.
The 85 families, who…
11 November 2022
Main photo: Fishermen arriving back at Kampung Sungei Batu with the catch of the day. (Photo: CNA/Gaya Chandramohan)
SUNGAI BATU, Penang: Voters in Penang are concerned about the upcoming general election and how the result would affect their future.
A new federal government will be formed after…
9 September 2022
Main photo: the evicted farmers in Kanthan, Perak, with PSM chairman Dr Michael Jeyakumar Devaraj (centre, in white shirt) in December last year.
PETALING JAYA: A Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) leader says menteris besar and chief ministers are being given vast powers on land matters in their states…
14 July 2022
Main photo: Malaysia has argued that no one else has a right over Sabah, which is at the centre of a claim by the heirs of the late sultan of Sulu. (Bernama pic)
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been given a reprieve in the US$14.9 billion (RM63.5 billion) claim over a centuries-old land deal.
The…
23 May 2022
Main photo: the roots of mangrove trees are seen along a river in Pitas, Sabah, Malaysia, July 6, 2018
The roots of mangrove trees are seen along a river in Pitas, Sabah, Malaysia, July 6, 2018.[Reuters]
An ostensibly green land deal between Sabah state in Malaysia and a private Singaporean firm…
15 April 2022
Critics of a government plantation scheme have slammed the program following revelations that only a fraction of forest reserves cleared for plantations over the past decade have actually been replanted.
An investigation by environmental news site Macaranga found that only 5% of the 77,331 hectares…
20 October 2021
MIPO Webinar Series
Webinar: Challenges and opportunities for good labour practices and worker rights in the Malaysian palm oil sector
Join us for a discussion on challenges and opportunities for good labour practices and worker rights in the Malaysian palm oil sector. Hosted by the Monash -…
7 April 2021
Since the Kyoto Protocol 1997, one might wonder what and how the newly emerged “The Paris Agreement” will help to fortify the global response to the threat of climate change.
The climate deal pledged to keep the global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels…
30 January 2021
KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 29): The Energy and Natural Resources Ministry (KeTSA) has achieved a new milestone in forestry management with the adoption of the Malaysian Forestry Policy 2020 which involved consultations among the three regions in the country, namely the Peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak.
Its…