Meet Xiang Xiang, Tokyo’s newest star panda
Top image via Asian Correspondent: “6-month-old baby Miu Suwazono wearing a costume featuring giant panda.” Source: Reuters/Issei Kato
Hundreds turned out to Tokyo Zoo on Tuesday to see Xiang Xiang, a six-month-old female panda bornย at Ueno Zoological Gardens in June. Asian Correspondent has compiled photos of her and her mother, Shin Shin, and notes, “It has been nearly three decades since a baby panda at the capitalโs zoo has survived this long.”
Also be sure to check out our other Society piece for the day, A Top 10 List of Society News in China, 2017, featuring an arsonist nanny, a tiger mauling, maggot-infested KFC chickenโฆplus some non-tragic news.
Nanny arsonists and maggot-infested chicken โ a top 10 list of society news in China, 2017
- Redeveloping the worldโs art factory
The writing on the wallsย / The World of Chinese
The art village of Dafen produces as much as 70 percent of the worldโs oil paintings โ almost all replicas โ but local government efforts to rezone and โmanageโ the area could push the industry out. - Children and values
China’s one-child generation not so selfish after allย / Science Daily
โNew research suggests that โ in the workplace at least โ the one-child generation is just as cooperative as preceding generations of Chinese workers.โ
Whatโs behind Chinaโs spate of murdered teachers?ย / Sixth Tone
โWhen parents do not set clear boundaries for their childrenโs behavior, violence is more likely to erupt.โ - Office culture
Chinese staff made to slap each other on stage at companyโs anniversary celebrationย / SCMP
โA worker was quoted as saying that the slapping exercise was โmeant to strengthen team bonds.โโ - Crabs
Chinese officials save 276 horseshoe crabs from certain death, return them to the seaย / SCMP