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Hong Kong conservationist groups have urged authorities to withdraw several proposed amendments to land-use regulations, warning it would limit public participation and cause “irreversible” damage to the local environment.The package of six amendments would enable the government to reduce the number of public consultations at the Town Planning Board from …

Gunmen in the southern Philippines killed a Muslim rebel and eight of his companions in a road ambush Saturday that authorities said was apparently sparked by a land dispute.Several attackers raked two SUVs with assault rifle fire in an early morning ambush in an isolated farming village in Guindulungan town …

Indonesia’s devastating forest fires in 2019 burned nearly twice as much land as was officially reported, according to a recent study, raising concerns among environmental campaigners over the government’s transparency regarding deforestation.The Southeast Asian country, which has the largest rainforests outside the Amazon and Congo, has razed large swathes of …

LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has acquired over 80% of land for LDA City (Jinnah Sector) and over 65% of development work has been completed. During the visit to the project site on Tuesday, LDA Director General Ahmad Aziz Tarar reviewed land acquisition status and progress on the development …

ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday could not take a decision to delist two companies from the active privatisation list, as its focus turns towards selling precious land rather than doing meaningful privatisation to stem growing public sector losses. The Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCOP) set up two committees to decide …