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Riau to legalise thousands of hectares of small-scale illegal gold mines

Straits Times 22 Jan 2026
Permit holders will be required to restore or reforest mined land once the permit expires ....
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M'sia cedes 5.2k hectares in territory to Indonesia as exchange - report

Malaysia Kini 22 Jan 2026
This is to compensate for three villages near the Sabah-Kalimantan border. .
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Worst-in-a-decade wildfires burn 132,000 hectares in South Africa's Western Cape

The Star 22 Jan 2026
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 22 -- Wildfires ravaging parts of South Africa's Western Cape are among the most severe in a decade, burning about 132,000 hectares of land, Provincial Premier Alan Winde said on Thursday. Read full story ... .
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Nearly 64,000 hectares of sea area allocated for offshore wind surveys

The Saigon Times 22 Jan 2026
Specifically, 24,000 hectares of offshore waters near the Long Chau Archipelago and Bach Long Vi Island off Haiphong have been allocated for survey and measurement work for the Bac Bo and Bac Bo 1.3 offshore wind projects.
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Riau to legalize thousands of hectares of small-scale illegal gold mines

The Jakarta Post 22 Jan 2026
he Riau provincial government plans to legalize thousands of hectares of illegal gold mines to bring the activity under formal regulation and limit environmental damage ... up to 10 hectares, he said.
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Government targets illegal mining on 190,000 hectares of forest land

The Jakarta Post 20 Jan 2026
"There were 191,790 hectares (mines) that do not have forestry use permits, which could be considered illegal," Deputy Forestry Minister Rohmat Marzuki said. He did not name any of the companies involved or say how many were involved.
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Việt Nam to add new free trade zone of up to 5,000 hectares

Vietnam News 20 Jan 2026
HÀ NỘI — Cần Thơ City is weighing plans for a sprawling free trade zone of about 2,000–5,000 hectares as it looks to sharpen its edge in regional and global commerce and lure strategic investors with flexible and preferential policies.
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Indonesia's mangrove coverage rises to 3.46 million hectares

Antara News 20 Jan 2026
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's mangrove coverage increased by 15,164 hectares to 3,455,628 hectares in 2025, according to the Ministry of Environment ... the largest coverage at 622,288 hectares.
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MPIDC mulls over new 250 hectare industrial belt near Nagda in Ujjain

The Times of India 19 Jan 2026
'We are planning a new industrial belt near Nagda spread over nearly 250 hectare.
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China completes over 8 million hectares of land greening in 2025

People Daily 16 Jan 2026
BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- China completed 127 million mu (about 8.47 million hectares) of land greening in 2025, according to the National Forestry and Grassland work conference held on Thursday ... (Web editor. Zhang Kaiwei, Liang Jun). .
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Gov't to restore 98,000 hectares of damaged rice fields in Sumatra

Antara News 16 Jan 2026
North Aceh, Aceh (ANTARA) - Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman emphasized that the government is rehabilitating 98 thousand hectares of rice fields damaged by natural disasters in Sumatra to restore food production and farmers’ incomes.
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