For years Huang Sheng-yi helped feed Taiwan's addiction to the betel nut, planting thousands of the trees on his mountainous farm. Today he has felled most of them, incentivised by the government to ...

Traces of a psychoactive compound has been detected in the dental plaque of a Bronze Age woman buried in Thailand some 4,000 years ago, making it the earliest direct chemical evidence of humans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Betel nuts are displayed in a stall at an agricultural fair at the Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra campus in Bangalore on November 19, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mong Shuan was just 16 when she turned to an unconventional source of income: selling betel nuts from a little stall in northern ...

An ongoing trial to help people quit chewing betel nut has seen success, with about 40 percent of those in an intervention program quitting within six months, researchers said during a presentation ...

A University of Guam team is looking at developing strategies to help betel nut chewers who want to quit the risky habit. Yvette Paulino, principal investigator of the University of Guam Cancer ...

Farmers in the northern border district of Lalmonirhat are facing concerns despite a satisfactory yield of betel nuts this season, as market prices remain significantly lower than last year. Locally ...

The women are mostly in their early 20s. They have children at home. Selling betel nut — an addictive, natural chew — to passersby in mountain towns of Papua New Guinea is a good way to earn a living.

Betel nut farming has changed the luck of many farmers in Nilphamari district as the crop is more profitable than many others thanks to its nature of giving high yield with little care and handsome ...

Mong Shuan was just 16 when she turned to an unconventional source of income: selling betel nuts from a little stall in northern Taiwan. The stimulant, a small, oblong fruit derived from areca palms, ...

A University of Guam team is looking at developing strategies to help betel nut chewers who want to quit the risky habit. Yvette Paulino, principal investigator of the University of Guam Cancer ...