China 'extends' panda cub loan

Published: 7/04/2011 at 05:50 PM
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China will allow Thailand to keep the hugely popular giant panda cub Lin Ping for two more years, Prasertsak Boontrakulpoontawee, head of Thailand's panda project, said Thursday.

File photo shows Linping (R) walking past her mother Lin Hui (L) in an enclosure at Chiang Mai zoo. China will allow Thailand to keep for two more years a giant panda cub with millions of fans and her own reality television show in the kingdom, a Thai official said Thursday.

Lin Ping, who is one year and 10 months old, is the first giant panda cub to be born in Thailand, following years of artificial insemination and efforts to encourage her parents to mate at Chiang Mai Zoo.

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tommylee
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Discussion 2 : 07/04/2011 at 07:13 PM2
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How cute. Noteworthy, though, to see that the much more readworthy article "Bogus ID cards scam spiralling out of control (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/230735/bogus-id-cards-scam-spiralling-out-of-control) has been removed from the front page, dumped in a remote section of the paper, and replaced by this cute little article on a cute little panda cub.
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Discussion 1 : 07/04/2011 at 02:31 PM1
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Good gesture in theory but totally spoilt in reality by the need to pay a "friendship fee" of more than 30 million Baht upfront. 712 more days @ THBxxx per day means Lin Ping is a hire not a loan.

Same as the Chinese development for the railway. The Chinese do nothing for friendship.
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