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HONG KONG – Hong Kong plans to phase out its long tradition of using bamboo scaffolding for construction projects, after the city’s deadliest residential fire in more than 60 years. Investigators are ...

Dr Ehsan Noroozinejad has received funding from both national and international organisations. His most recent funding on integrated housing and climate policy comes from the Australian Public Policy ...

The Hong Kong residential towers engulfed by smoke and flames on Wednesday were surrounded by an ancient construction material familiar to anyone who’s spent time in the one of the world’s most ...

Bamboo scaffolding, a centuries-old technique that was traditionally ubiquitous in Hong Kong, is under scrutiny for its role in the city’s deadliest fire in more than a century. At least 55 people ...

HONG KONG, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Hong Kong's deadliest fire in three decades has highlighted its risky use of flammable bamboo scaffolding and mesh for building work in a tradition dating back centuries ...

A Ropes & Gray private equity duo is set to join rival U.S. outfit Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in London. Private equity partner Dan Oates has resigned from Ropes after less than three years at the ...

Hard plastic made from bamboo is as strong and durable as conventional plastics for uses such as household appliances and car interiors, but is also recyclable and biodegrades easily in soil. Plastics ...

On either side of a gorge high in the Peruvian Andes, an aging rope bridge sags precariously over the Apurímac River. 1 of 13 A Quechua man walks across the old suspension bridge at the start of the ...

Every year, in the middle of summer, hundreds of Hong Kong construction workers and engineers walk up some 200 steps to Ching Lin Terrace in the seaside neighborhood of Kennedy Town. There, in one of ...