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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sourced in Assam, agarwood is brought to Mumbai, illegally exported to the Middle East, Maharashtra forest officers said. On July 29, the Thane division of the Maharashtra forest department seized ...

Hong Kong customs has made its largest seizure of protected agarwood in more than two decades, discovering one tonne (2,205lbs) of the tree bark worth HK$18 million (US$2.3 million) in a sea shipment ...

Kuwait, October 2011—68 participants from 18 key producer and consumer countries of agarwood met last week in Kuwait to discuss the future of the ancient trade in this highly prized commodity. A ...

Agarwood, derived from infected Aquilaria trees, produces oud, prized for its unique fragrance in perfumery. Rare and costly, oud's demand has surged, leading to sustainability concerns. Brands like ...

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 ...