TOKYO: The wife of China’s ambassador to Japan and the governor of Tokyo turned out on Monday to help mark this week’s public debut of Japan’s popular panda cub, who turned six-months-old this month. The healthy female cub was born in June, five years after her mother, Shin Shin, lost another cub within days of its birth. Wang Wan, the wife of Chinese ambassador Cheng Yonghua, joined Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike at the media event one day before the general public can view the panda from Tuesday. I think the birth of Shan Shan - pronounced Xiang Xiang in Chinese - is truly auspicious,” Wang said. The panda toddler’s name, written with the Chinese character for fragrant, was chosen from more than 322,000 suggestions submitted by the public.

Source: New Strait Times December 18, 2017 05:03 UTC