Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Durian is a large, green, rugby-ball-shaped fruit native to Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei and now grown in ...
Some say durian reeks of rotting onions, others compare it to dirty socks or gasoline. It’s even banned on public transport in places like Singapore and Malaysia. But if you can get past the infamous ...
Durian, the pungent (and highly polarising) fruit has often caused people to dry-retch when its odour hits their nostrils, but over the weekend, the fruit caused an entire police-assisted evacuation.