The Penang Island City Council (MBPP) oversees 43,668 urban trees, but environmentalists say crucial mature specimens are ...

The Malaysian Rubber Glove Manufacturers Association (Margma) has urged Putrajaya to negotiate an exemption for the sector ...

In the 1770s, Vidya Rajan writes in her book Rubber: The Social and Natural History of an Indispensable Substance, an English engineer called Edward Nairne was believed to have used a piece of ...

The new technology, developed in Malaysia and patented in all rubber-producing Asean countries, provides a foolproof system to supply the right amount of gas to rubber trees without adverse effects.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 (Bernama) -- A comprehensive and systematic approach to re-organise smallholder rubber farmers into a federation, coupled with replanting of higher-yielding rubber tree varieties, ...

Deforestation surged in Marajo when global demand for Amazonian rubber plummeted as countries like Malaysia began large-scale rubber tree plantations.

Sri Lankan rubber plantation workers have become victims of labour exploitation and national oppression. Even though they make a crucial contribution to the country's economy, they still face poor ...

Cultivating rubber in combination with an array of fruit and timber trees, medicinal plants, herbs and vegetables provides farmers with a source of income during the rainy season when latex yields ...