Bian River News Today

Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is still widely used for scaffolding in construction. It's flexible, strong and cheaper than steel and aluminium-metal alternatives that are now more commonly used in mainland China and elsewhere in Asia. In Hong Kong, skilled armies of scaffolders can erect enough bamboo to engulf a building in...

How the use of bamboo in scaffolding has stood the test of centuries of building construction in Hong Kong and southern China.

Indigenous Marind villagers call upon their plant and animal kin to confront a map used by the oil palm industry in West Papua.