A luxury durian - dubbed the king of fruits - has sold for a whopping 1.5 million baht (£37,750; $48,000) at a charity auction in Thailand. Depending on who you ask, the durian is either the king ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Just one 2.5-kilogram durian from Nonthaburi, Thailand, can cost $380. Yet the fruit has a smell that some people find extremely unpleasant.

Thailand will resume exporting durian to China by Monday as quick contamination tests are under way, according to Deputy Agriculture Minister Itthi Sirilatthayakorn. The Department of Agriculture ...

Itthi Sirilathayakorn, deputy minister of Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, said exports were resumed on Monday, with 96 tons of durian worth 7.8 million baht (US$228,900) to be ...

The General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) has issued alerts about cadmium-tainted durian shipments from Thailand, prompting a temporary suspension of exports from affected companies ...

Thailand has long dominated China’s durian market, accounting for 68 per cent of imports in 2023. However, its market share in China dropped to 57 per cent last year, a fall attributed to ...

China imported a record US$6.99 billion worth of durians in 2024 as Vietnam and Malaysia compete with Thailand for shares of the world’s largest durian market. This marked a 4.1% increase in value ...

and Vietnam is the only durian producing market left as Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have all run out of fresh durian. He estimated that there are $100 million worth of durian ...

According to Dang Phuc Nguyen, general secretary of the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association, Vietnam typically has an edge over Thailand around year-end when it has off-season durian to export ...

The trend has made it the country's largest fruit import and has increased trade between Thailand and China. Since 2019, China has imported more fresh durian than cherries in quantity, cementing ...