From dawn to midnight, Huang Qijun nurtures and tends to 10,056 durian trees, every day. By late March, the mild weather in China’s southernmost province of Hainan – with occasional overcast ...

The elephant brought two pieces of durian wrapped in its trunk as it went back to the forest. Thailand has up to 3,500 elephants in the wild. The population has been increasing in recent years ...

HONG KONG (South China Morning Post/Asia News Network): Just like durian, I am a tropical native and spiky on the outside. That, and the fact that I am an avowed fan of the divisive fruit ...

A stand-off between Malaysian durian farmers and authorities wanting to raze illegal plantations of the fruit, much coveted in China, escalated this week with the arrest of a lawmaker. For weeks ...

The Malaysian government has cut down over 1,000 durian trees in recent days, claiming that they were illegally grown on state-controlled land, despite farmers’ protests. Authorities in a district of ...