Bamboos are also being used in making furnitures and handicrafts in the Philippines ... the profile of bamboo that is traditionally used in the country in building nipa huts, as a sustainable ...

The Philippines' history and cultural background ... The Bahay Kubo is a small hut comprising nipa, bamboo, and other indigenous materials. It is often times that many citizens still choose ...

Our homes have evolved in the last century from the nipa hut to the ... rather than wood or bamboo with nipa or thatch roofs. Many towns, and the few cities in the Philippines then, were passing ...

Crafted out of bamboo ... in the Philippines last December when they visited a local restaurant. His party was ushered outside into a private dining area, located in a nipa hut.

Elena Borcelas, referring to a community-based rebuilding effort after a powerful earthquake struck Bohol and parts of the central Philippines in 2013 ... “When Koreans came to my house made totally ...

CEBU, Philippines - Two men were shot dead early ... revealed that the victims were just sleeping inside a small bamboo-made house when an unidentified assailant entered and shot them out.

Bahay kubo or native bamboo houses have sheltered hundreds of people displaced by the armed conflict in 2017 in Marawi City, southern Philippines ... Made of light materials like nipa palm, wood, and ...

BANGKOK, Nov 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The creator of a low-cost house made of bamboo to tackle the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the Philippine capital has won a top ...