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For thousands of years, agarwood has been known as "The Wood of the Gods." First-grade agarwood can cost as much as $100,000 per kilogram, making it one of the most expensive raw materials in the ...

Kynam wood, a rare and luxurious form of agarwood, stands as the most expensive wood globally, surpassing even gold in value. Originating from specific Aquilaria trees in Southeast Asia when infected ...

The primary source of agarwood and one of the world’s most expensive trees, the evergreen agar tree (Aquilaria malaccensis Lam) is a step away from extinction in the wild. In Assam, reputed to be ...

World’s Most Expensive Wood: We have all seen the skyrocketing prices of gold and silver; even crude oil prices are touching the sky. Gold and silver are metals that are always expensive, whether you ...

Ho Pui-han followed a marker left by poachers into the forest behind the Tsz Shan Monastery in Hong Kong. The sign was easy to miss. Just a white circle and arrow painted on a palm-sized stone. Inside ...

Endangered species: Customs officials seize 2.2kg of incense tree wood chips at Shenzhen Bay Control Point on December 28. Seized chips: A haul of 4.4kg of agarwood wood chips are confiscated at the ...

Customs officers on Thursday said they had arrested a 35-year-old woman who is suspected of smuggling a tonne of agarwood into Hong Kong from Nansha. It was the largest seizure of agarwood in history ...

Two travellers have been sentenced to six-week and four-week jail terms for illegally exporting agarwood, which is classified as an endangered species. The men were separately convicted for illegally ...