Tea

Turkey earned revenues of over $4.5 million after exporting tea to 93 countries in the first half of 2018, according to Eastern Black Sea Exporters Association (DKIB) data.

Malaysian authorities said on May 28 that they have seized a record 1.2 tons of crystal methamphetamine that was shipped from Myanmar hidden in tea packets, the latest huge drugs haul in Southeast Asia.

Turkey’s General Directorate of Tea Enterprises (Çaykur) was exporting tea to 110 countries by the end of 2017, according to Çaykur Chairman İmdat Sütlüoğlu.

Turkey has gifted an automatic tea-processing plant to Pakistan to support tea cultivation based on modern technology, Pakistani media reported on Aug. 26.

Greek police say they have arrested two Albanian men in a border region for allegedly illegally harvesting herbs growing wild on the mountainside.

A police statement Tuesday said the men aged 20 and 22 had gathered 16 kilos of ironwort, a herb used for a traditional tea. They were also charged with illegally entering Greece from Albania, in the Krystallopigi area.

The plant looked completely useless. A shrub with green leaves and no fruit. The tiny leaves seemed to be inedible; one could not even use them leaves in wrapped leaf dishes. What's more, the local peasants were not convinced. 

Bubbletale tea bars seem to be popping up everywhere around Athens – if you excuse the pun! Established in 2013 by a creative young team of individuals interested in creating new trends on the local market, the bubble-tea idea is catching on like wildfire. Greek teens are being drawn by the drove like bees to honey.

NOVI SAD - The exhibition entitled Chinese Tea Culture will open at the City Library of Novi Sad on Thursday.

The exhibition will be opened by Ivana Zivancevic Sekerus, dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and director of the Confucius Institute, and Dragan Kojic, library director general.