Pineapple lovers are lucky to enjoy a glut of tropical fruit at a cheap price as the crop ripened prematurely after an unseasonal winter rain in Queensland. The cold and wet snap in the sunshine state is expected to result in millions of pineapples—or 70 percent of the annual crop ripening all at once instead…

TAIPEI—The de facto U.S. and Canadian embassies in Taiwan on Tuesday praised the quality of pineapples grown on the island, depicting photographs of their top diplomats in Taipei with the fruit after an import ban by China. China last week stopped the import of Taiwanese pineapples, citing “harmful creatures” it said could come with the…

TAIPEI—Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen called on people to eat more pineapples to help farmers on Friday, saying Taiwan had been “ambushed” by a ban on the fruit by neighboring long-time rival China which claims the island as its own. China said on Friday that starting in March it would suspend imports of pineapples from sub-tropical…