Pyry is a male panda originally named Hua Bao and Lumi is a female called Jin Bao Bao back in China. The Ahtari Zoo hoped the pandas would attract more visitors to its central location but that ...

"Central Asia is a vast region with abundant natural resources and is one of the world's strategic areas," she told CRI ...

This isn’t the first time a Chinese zoo has misled visitors with claims of housing real pandas. In May, NBC Newsreported that Taizhou Zoo in Jiangsu Province had also painted Chow Chows. Zoo ...

The Diplomat ’s Asia Geopolitics podcast hosts Ankit Panda ( @nktpnd) and Katie Putz ( @LadyPutz) discuss the recent ...

Pandas as a World War II 'thank you' As World War II was raging in Asia and Europe and the U.S. was still weighing whether to get involved, China sent a pair of pandas to the Bronx Zoo in New York ...

History of China’s panda diplomacy. Pandas have roamed eastern Asia for millions of years, but the iconic black-and-white bears first captured the hearts of the American public in 1936, ...

SEOUL - Spring showers mixed with tears on April 3 as some 6,000 South Koreans sent off three-year-old giant panda Fu Bao as she went on a journey back to her home country China. Loud sobs could ...

Chinese researchers discovered a giant panda fossil during a recent expedition in the Shuanghe Cave in Suiyang County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. Their find is the 47th giant panda fossil ...