Inside a glass display case in the luxurious setting of a Ginza showroom stands what looks like part of a severed tree trunk, roughly 80 centimeters in height. To the untutored eye it looks like ...

Every Lunar New Year, the Vietnamese village of Quảng Phú Cầu is immersed in an ocean of pink. Nearly 3,000 households — about 70% of the entire town — contribute to the production of the incense ...

Every year as Lunar New Year approaches, the entrance of Quyet Thang Village is filled with the strong fragrance of the incense sticks made here. Every Tết season, incense makers in Quyết Thắng ...

Although the time is ripe for selling incense sticks, people do not see many of them in Le Minh Xuan incense-making village in HCM City. At four am, people can hear powder mixer, drying machine… being ...

A worker covers incense sticks with colored powder at the Fujian Xingquan Incense Factory in East China's Fujian Province. Photo: AFP Dozens of workers toil through the night coating thin lengths of ...