A steamer at Irrawaddy River

Bamboo houses

Bamboo forest.

They're beautiful. They're bamboo.

Pandas feed on bamboo grass.

Pandas live in bamboo thickets.

Mary loves her bamboo fence.

The panda is eating bamboo.

There's bamboo growing in the garden.

These socks are made from bamboo fibre.

Sixty eight rich men on the Steamer Portland. Stacks of yellow metal.

As good luck would have it, a steamer passed by and they were saved.

This bamboo is too thin to bear much weight.

We received instructions on how to make a bamboo basket.

Pandas spend at least 12 hours each day eating bamboo.

And in this case, a man got hooked on a bamboo sleeping mat.

Dancers used weapons made from bamboo while screaming continually to drive away evil.

Most Shakuhachi are made from bamboo, but recently some wooden ones have appeared.

Messenger or postman delivering the mail clasped in the end of a split bamboo pole.

It is a carnivore turned herbivore and feeds mainly on young bamboo shoots and leaves.

A traditional Japanese umbrella or wagasa, made of bamboo and Japanese paper, is a beautiful thing.

A bamboo economic zone appears to be emerging, perhaps to replace today s weakening US centric trans Pacific ties.

Suitable species of bamboo (such as Pseudostachyum) with these traits are endemic to the forests of Assam and Kerala.

Here's a report from our field trip (Kawaguchi Athletic Park) The panda chewing on bamboo is a horrible sight.

And it goes like this. It's by a guy called Yuan Chen I cannot bear to put away the bamboo sleeping mat.

'Splendid, splendid!' he said, lighting a thick cigarette after the joint 'I seem to have come to you as one lands from a noisy steamer on to a peaceful shore.

The town of some 19,000 people consists of wooden houses ringed by bamboo fencing, corrugated iron roofs transformed by rust into varying tawny shades.

In Nandurbar district of Maharashtra, residents have put together the most rudimentary means of transport for those in need of healthcare a bamboolance or a bamboo stretcher.

The people get that acacia timber which we have preserved with the bamboo peel, and they can build a house, they have some fuel wood to cook with.

The first place winner of the competition will be awarded a Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet and the top submissions will be published in The Week and Muscat Daily newspapers.

After breaking off large sulphur rocks, which in total can weigh up to 70 kilos, he carries them in two bamboo baskets on his shoulders along the steep stone paths.

On the economic front, Haiti can become a profitable exporter of tropical crops such as groundnuts, mangos, cut flowers, string beans, and bamboo a source of progress among Haiti s Caribbean basin neighbors.

Prone to natural disasters from what seems like the beginning of time, Bangladesh has become very good at dealing with all that Mother Nature decides to throw at her, bending like bamboo but never breaking.

In the early morning they start to pluck tea leaves and fill the bamboo buckets and continue till the evening takes them to the factory. The price of tea has increased day by day, but their benefits and wages haven't.

Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off the grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create . The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world's largest freestanding bamboo building.

Let s hope that this time there is more than talk. If US and Chinese policymakers instead surrender to the temptation of slipping back to the pre crisis imbalances, the roots of the next crisis will grow like bamboo. And that would not be good news for the US and China, or anyone else.

Let s hope that this time there is more than talk. If US and Chinese policymakers instead surrender to the temptation of slipping back to the pre crisis imbalances, the roots of the next crisis will grow like bamboo.  And that would not be good news for the US and China, or anyone else.