Parents are being warned of a cancer-scare involving fake accessories for loom bands after tests revealed some imported batches were laced with deadly levels of chemicals. Safety officials have issued ...

Watching his daughters make bracelets from rubber bands, Cheong Choon Ng, an engineer working for Nissan in the US, developed a plastic loom on which to weave coloured synthetic rubber bands. These ...

A few weeks ago my five-year-old son came home from school sporting a multi-coloured bracelet on his wrist. "What's that," I said, wondering if it was some bizarre new tagging system introduced by his ...