SHANGHAI — Is China at a fork in the road? Beijing this week slapped a 5% tax on disposable chopsticks, dealing what many Chinese say was a powerful gut punch. In cafes here Thursday, people dropped ...

Chopsticks are a pair of sticks, usually made of wood, used for eating Asian food. In Chinese, the old word for "chopsticks,",and also in some varieties of modern Chinese such as Hokkien, was zhù (箸 ...

Created roughly 4,000-5,000 years ago in China, the earliest versions of something like chopsticks were used for cooking (they’re perfect for reaching into pots full of hot water or oil) and were most ...

AMERICUS, Ga. - Every week the factory floor of Georgia Chopsticks churns out 10 million chopsticks that are sold in China. But, as CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann reports, the chopsticks are ...