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No Need To Be Bamboozled

Friday October 13, 2006
HOME owners, architects, interior designers and builders alike should have just one word on their lips at the moment, and that word is bamboo.

Tri, Try Again

Saturday June 11, 2005
The arrival of three princesses forced a major makeover, writes ALYSSON WATSON.

The Kitsch And Famous

Sunday August 5, 2001
British commentator Zoe Heller recalls her night out as a squashed and humiliated nobody VIP.

There's No Place Like A Home With All The Style Of The '50s

Sunday October 13, 1996
DRIVING along the quiet streets of Ivanhoe, a squat little building made almost entirely of glass stands out from the traditional two-storey family homes. Stop the car to look. Wide white venetian blinds, bamboo wall paper and tea-tree bark fencing. A pale blue Chrysler station wagon is parked in th

Third Indochina War Is Waged Behind The Kampuchea Wall

Wednesday October 7, 1987
ARANYAPRATHET, Thailand, Wednesday: Kampuchea's communist rulers are building a wall - designed to keep resistance fighters out and refugees in -that will stretch the entire length of the 485-kilometre Thai-Kampuchean border. The wall is nothing like the solid, imposing Berlin Wall, but co