China’s Li Qiang promises Australia more pandas: ‘pick a pair’
He announced that the zoo would be loaned another two pandas after the pair are due to return to China in November. “China will soon provide another pair of pandas …
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2 Hongkongers among 3 seriously injured in Japan after helicopter makes crash landing
Two Hongkongers were among three people injured in a helicopter crash in Japan over the weekend, the city’s immigration authorities said on Tuesday. The Immigration Department said it was working …
Panda diplomacy not over as China set to send 2 giant pandas to U.S. this year
China plans to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after a recalling nearly all …
Uproar in India as Hindu group files court case over lion named after Muslim emperor
VHP is one of several Hindu nationalist groups who detest anything to do with the Mughals, who ruled over a huge swathe of the Indian subcontinent for several centuries before …
70 coins removed from stomach of alligator at Nebraska zoo – The Mercury News
By Andy Rose | CNN An alligator at a zoo in Omaha, Nebraska, needed an emergency procedure late last week to remove dozens of coins from its stomach, zoo officials …
Why do these mosquitoes keep perching on the nostrils of frogs who want to eat them?
As It Happens6:28Why do these mosquitos keep perching on the nostrils of frogs who want to eat them? John Gould had been snapping pictures of mosquitoes on frogs for years …
More pandas will be headed to the U.S., China’s Xi suggests
Chinese President Xi Jinping signalled that China will send new pandas to the United States, calling them “envoys of friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.” “We are ready to …
Xi to meet Biden on U.S. soil: 5 things to watch for at tense superpower summit
A Chinese leader arriving on U.S. soil for an international summit and meeting the American president would, until recently, have been rather unremarkable. But times are changing. The fact that …
Bye-bye, pandas: Amid curdling U.S.-China relations, zoo loses beloved beasts after 51 years
For decades, they were cuddly emblems of global co-operation. Now, they’re a bamboo-munching testament to a more turbulent world. Beloved giant pandas that came to define the zoo in the …
‘Britain’s loneliest sheep’ rescued after more than 2 years stranded at the bottom of a cliff
As It Happens5:01‘Britain’s loneliest sheep’ rescued after more than 2 years stranded at the bottom of a cliff A sheep that was stranded for more than two years at the …