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.

PETALING JAYA: The Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (Fama) projects a 20% to 25% increase in durian exports this year due to heightened demand from China. Also, growers say that China’s ...

GUANGDONG: China’s middle class consumers have been tightening their purse strings, but their appetite for durian – pungent, spiky fruit mostly imported from Southeast Asia – continues to grow.

MANILA, Philippines — The country has exported its first-ever shipment of frozen durian meat and paste to China, marking the start of trade of the frozen commodity in the world’s top durian buyer.

Maylong Enterprises Corp., a Davao City-based company, has made history as the first Philippine enterprise to be approved by the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China to ...