The recent sellout agreement between Sri Lankan plantation unions and employers is part of a ruthless drive by the tea industry to boost profits by driving up productivity and destroying the limited ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCBD)- It’s no secret that in the South we love our tea sweet and our chicken fried. Have you ever wondered where the tea in your glass came from? Unless you bought your teabags from ...

There is often no better way to connect with a place than through the rituals it preserves. In Charleston, tea has long held a quiet, storied presence. From colonial-era ports to modern plantations, ...

An Indian plantation labour dispute reaches the International Labour Organisation as questions grow over wages, enforcement, ...

When what, until recently, was known as the Charleston Tea Plantation reopened to visitors this summer after being closed for three months, it returned under a different name: the Charleston Tea ...

The history of tea in the United States is as old as the nation itself, with one of the key events of the American Revolution being the Boston Tea Party, a 1773 act of defiance by colonists. Although ...

Unions in Assam say many workers are paid below minimum wage and live in poverty on the plantations where they work CHENNAI, India, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of tea ...

William Barclay Hall is a third-generation tea tester. "What could be better than a life centered around tea?" he says. The only commercial tea plantation in the U.S. is located on Wadmalaw Island, ...

India is one of the largest tea producers in the world, with sprawling tea gardens that stretch across the hills of Assam, Darjeeling, and Nilgiri. These lush plantations not only offer a picturesque ...