Heatwave hammers Thailand's lucrative durian farms

CHANTHABURI: Clambering hand-over-hand, sweat dripping into his eyes, a durian labourer expertly slices a cumbersome fruit from a tree before tossing it down to land with a soft thump in his colleague's waiting arms some 15m below. Among Thailand's most famous and lucrative exports, the pungent "king of fr