Each year, the agarwood tree, a sought-after source of medicines and perfumes that grows in the rainforests of southwest China, needs to solve a problem. The tree’s fruits mature during the hottest ...

First-grade agarwood can cost as much as $100,000 per kilogram, making it one of the most expensive raw materials in the world. But for this tree to produce any agarwood, it must first become ...

THE BUREAU of Customs (BoC) said on Thursday that it seized smuggled agarwood worth P750,000 in a Pasay City warehouse. In a statement, the BoC said that it intercepted an outbound cargo containing ...

Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Illegal felling of incense trees in Hong Kong has surged, driven by black market demand for agarwood, a valuable resin used in luxury products. Scientists are ...