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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The second look always uncovers more than what the opening gaze did. On rare occasions, the second look totally upends conclusions made from the initial glance. That is how a bird record from Adyar ...

The Cambodian government has urged the owners of swiftlet nest houses and processing facilities who wish to export edible bird’s nests to the Chinese market to apply for the necessary paperwork.

KOTA KINABALU: A governing body is needed to look after the growing swiftlet ranching industry in Sabah, says a former state assistant minister. Datuk Karim Bujang said without such a body, this ...

The Koh Kong provincial Department of Environment has urged swiftlet house owners in the province to follow environmental protection guidelines before legal measures are taken. Provincial environment ...

A researcher says he has photographed two types of Asian swiftlets for the first time in Australia after they blew in on the winds of Tropical Cyclone Damien. The edible-nest swiftlet and the ...

About 800 swiftlet breeders participated in the ‘Rescue Swiftlet Breeders Assembly’ organised by the Malaysia Swiftlet Breeders Association (MSBA) in Seberang Jaya yesterday. This was in protest of an ...

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 ...