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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) intercepted an outbound cargo containing rare agarwood worth P750,000 at a warehouse in Pasay City on January 31. According to the BOC, the shipment was declared as dried ...

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 combating this by creating a DNA ...