In 1990, Douglas Lewis returned from Maui with a container of bamboo poles he had cut by hand and floated down an irrigation canal. A college freshman back then, Lewis wanted to start a fencing ...

OK, now this whole USB gadget thing is really getting silly. They’re now producing Japanese bamboo fans that double as USB memory sticks. And this time, “they” aren’t even offered by CrunchGear ...

I’ve not seen a gathering of housewives, restaurateurs, engineers, doctors, musicians, farmers and students enthusiastically listening to experts explain how to raise bamboo and make money from it ...

A pair of fans made by Xu Jiadong (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) Nearly three decades have passed, but 57-year-old Xu Jiadong still remembers the day when he first went into a bamboo forest with his father ...