Would we believe in the statement ‘Some of the newest ideas are based on the oldest practices’? On the face of it we may not, but if we look at the way bamboo is making a grand return, most of us may ...

Children hang like monkeys off bamboo scaffolding and shout as they clamber over the newly assembled climbing frame adjoining Tai Tam Country Park. “This is my hotel,” says one child, pointing to the ...

A small mountain village in Chiayi has become home to a rare species of climbing bamboo, which has established itself on a concrete utility pole and has produced a shoot 3m above ground, unlike most ...