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 ...

Due to a belief in the high medicinal value of bird's nest soup, heavy Chinese demand for swiftlet nests has resulted in a multibillion-dollar industry that may be endangering the bird. There are ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

The only decree regulating swiftlet farming in Vietnam went into force in 2013 and imposed conditions on the location of farms, their cleanliness and maintenance among other things. The only decree ...