JULY 4 — For generations, durian was simply what Malaysians ate when the season came around, a cheap roadside staple and a fixture of kampung childhoods long before anyone...

A bumper harvest has sent a ‘durian tsunami’ through Malaysia, flooding the market with famously smelly ‘king of fruits’ and driving prices sharply down.

JULY 4 — For generations, durian was simply what Malaysians ate when the season came around, a cheap roadside staple and a fixture of kampung childhoods long before anyone...