Pok Ku is the fourth generation in his family to make traditional Chinese coffins. Pok Ku said he uses only high-quality ...

Timber can be a beautiful, living building material. Species like spotted gum, teak, silky oak and merbau each have their own unique strength, grain, colour and scent, and are prized for things like ...

The prized tropical hardwood merbau was once found in abundance from east Africa to Tahiti. It is beloved of homebuilders and furniture stores around the Asia-Pacific region, but, thanks to decades of ...

Environmental activists have exposed what they claim to be the world's biggest timber smuggling racket, the supply of the luxurious dark hardwood, merbau, from Indonesia's eastern Papua province to ...

ENVIRONMENTAL activists said yesterday they had exposed the world's biggest smuggling racket involving a single type of wood, with huge shipments of logs going from Indonesia's remote Papua province ...

Environmental group Greenpeace said on Tuesday China should take responsibility for illegal hardwood logging in Southeast Asia which supplied the raw materials for Chinese exports to the West.

Environmental activists have exposed what they claim to be the world’s biggest timber smuggling racket, the supply of the luxurious dark hardwood, merbau, from Indonesia’s eastern Papua province to ...

Environmental activists have exposed what they claim to be the world’s biggest timber-smuggling racket, the supply of the luxurious dark hardwood merbau from Indonesia’s eastern Papua province to ...