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Today (March 29) marks the Day of the Landless, inaugurated by the Asian Peasant Coalition to spotlight the struggle for land rights by rural people in countries around the world.

Police have dropped charges of forestland encroachment against well-known TV show host Kiat Kitchareon and his wife. Charges are now being pressed only against the seller of the land.

The Finance Ministry has delayed the new land appraisal price base for another year, said Treasury Department director general Yuttana Yimgarund on Wednesday.

The Agricultural Land Reform Office (ALRO) is planning to repossess lands that had been provided to farmers who later died without any heirs, to continue using those lands for agriculture.

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) plans to adjust the commercial use of its lands leased under 10 contracts that would expire this year to generate additional revenue besides the fares from its train services, said Ake Sitthiwekin, SRT deputy governor of the Asset Management Business division.

The news circulating on several media outlets that the government is planning to issue land title deeds to local people in 50 provinces is true, the Digital Economy and Society Ministry has confirmed.

Phetchabun Governor Seubsak Iamwijarn said on Monday (September 14) that he was planning to meet with Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan and Deputy Finance Minister Santi Promphat this week to discuss the encroachment on national forest lands by hotel operators in Khao Kho, Phuhin Rongkla and Nam Nao national parks.

Lands on Silom Road are the priciest, according to data on estimates in Bangkok gathered from 2016-2019 and reported by the Treasury Department on its website.

The Natural Resources and Environment Ministry is working on tearing down resorts that have been illegally built on land granted to them under a royal project in the forested areas of Mon Cham mountain now that their appeal period has expired.

Govt also pushes back deadline for filing of personal income tax to Aug-end

Veera Somkwamkid, an anti-corruption activist, posted on his Facebook account that Palang Pracharath MP Pareena Kraikupt is still at risk of being charged for encroachment into a national forest in Ratchaburi province.