The Queensland Police Service said one person had been charged for possessing betel nut in 2019. Australian Dental Association oral medicine specialist Professor Michael McCullough said the ...

In the mountain towns of Papua New Guinea, you'll frequently see women selling a small, green tree fruit called betel nut. The seed ... says Richard Eves of Australian National University, who ...

The drug Betel Nut, a substance banned from sale in Australia, was found to be readily available at South Asian grocery stores in Melbourne. Hidden camera footage reveals SBS journalists were ...

Betel nut is the pit of the walnut-sized fruit of an areca palm tree. In Tok Pisin ... says Richard Eves, an Australian National University anthropologist who has published several studies ...

Fire starters display their betel nut stained tongues during a break ... involves chewing the small palm tree nut, which is mixed with lime powder and mustard, before spitting out red-tinged ...

On a tree-lined street in Papua New ... "People wake up first thing, they're gonna grab a betel nut," Sprigga Mek said. "Like in Australian culture, coffee is big. Everyone loves their coffee.

Starting this week, he is attempting to ban Papua New Guineans' traditional drug of choice, betel nut, from sale or public ... winner and a Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year.

An Indian farmer has invented a "tree scooter" to help him scale palm trees and harvest betel nuts. One scooter can harvest 300 areca palms in a day, more than three times the amount of the ...

Raised around their homesteads, farmers can get up to 800 betel nuts from a single tree each year, according to data from the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). The fruits are then sold ...

Thousands of Papua New Guineans chew the small palm tree nuts, which are the size of ... It is this by-product of chewing betel nuts that Governor Powes Parkop wants to eliminate from the streets ...