Up there on the weirdest-things-you-can-eat list has to be bird's nest soup. It would be weird enough just to eat your standard twiggy-grassy robin's nest, but this predominantly Chinese delicacy is ...

George Town, the capital of Malaysia's Penang state, is a city of two tales: on one side there's a multimillion-dollar edible bird's-nest industry, on the other there are the residents who say the ...

I REFER to the letter “Ban all swiftlet farming activities” (The Star May 5). The writer’s concern for the welfare of the birds and his call to allow them to live in their natural habitat are laudable ...

During the recent school holidays, I took my family to Penang to visit my grandmother. We stayed at her house in Georgetown but had a very unpleasant few days because someone had converted a nearby ...

hat began as a simple curiosity about the value of edible bird’s nest has turned into a lucrative source of income for former teacher Hadi Salleh, who now earns a substantial living from selling the ...

Former special-education teacher Hadi Salleh now earns about RM100,000 a year harvesting swiftlet nests. (Bernama pic) What started as curiosity about edible bird’s nest has grown into a lucrative ...

KUALA TERENGGANU: Operators of swiftlet farming in Terengganu will be required to register their bird-houses with the Veterinary Service Department under a new law to be introduced soon. State ...

According to the statistics given by the swiftlet farming industry, swiflet farming is now contributing RM1 billion to the national income and this is expected to increase to RM5 billion by 2015. Our ...

The rapid growth of the swift-breeding industry across the country could lead to negative effects if there is no long-term development plan, according to Ha Thuy Hanh, deputy director of the National ...

Seriously involved in the field since 2013, Hadi, who is more affectionately called Cikgu Hadi, 55, is able to harvest between 50 and 100 kilograms of nests a year with a value of approximately ...