The twins' departure will leave Japan without any pandas for the first time since 1972, the year the two countries normalised ...

Japan is set to be without pandas for the first time in more than half-a-century next week, a symbolic loss that comes as relations with China continue to deteriorate. The endangered animals are on ...

From a baby porker who saves its own bacon to a gold-rush lite among the country's youth, the SCMP takes a sideways look at ...

Japan said goodbye to its last two giant pandas on January 27, as twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei were returned from their host country to China. Their departure has left Japan without any pandas for the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's President Xi Jinping and France's President Emmanuel Macron attend a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in ...

Two hugely popular pandas are set to depart from a Tokyo zoo for China on Tuesday, leaving Japan without any of the beloved bears for the first time in more than 50 years. Panda twins Lei Lei and Xiao ...

The pandas' abrupt return was announced last month during a diplomatic spat between Japan and China Well-wishers waited for hours on the streets lining the Japanese zoo to say their final goodbyes to ...

A closer look turns it's actually a giant panda. This scene unfolded at the Wolong Shenshuping panda base under the China ...

BEIJING, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei arrived in Sichuan province on Wednesday, China's panda research base said in a social media post, leaving Japan without pandas for the ...

BEIJING, China — Giant pandas are no longer an endangered species thanks to conservation efforts, Chinese officials announced this week. Cui Shuhong, the head of the Ministry of Ecology and ...