Edi said the bridge collapsed during Saturday's big flood when wood and bamboo hit the suspension bridge's pillar.

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At his bungalow in Marrakech, Cox interspersed a thicket of spiky bamboo with a big curvy-leafed fig tree.

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In his farewell speech, Mr Muoi said he was worried about the Asian crisis, but in the same breath said one of the big problems was that imported plastics threaten the sale of locally made bamboo baskets.

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Mitchelson and Sit have the portfolio manager titles, but stock picking is really done at weekly five-hour gabfests where 12 people gather around a big jar of jelly beans in Sit Investment Associates' cozy conference room adorned with bamboo wallpaper and an oil painting of foggy mountains west of Shanghai.

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