A supply shortage of off-season durian in Vietnam has pushed prices up as exporters seek to gain the most from China’s crave for the fruit. Traders are buying Monthong durian in Tien Giang ...

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.

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ndonesia is eyeing a bigger slice of the global durian market after China, the world’s largest importer of the fruit, rejected more than 100 containers of durian from Thailand earlier this year.