Chinese pandas ready for long-awaited trip to Taiwan

December 21, 2008 A Giant Panda

Two Giant Pandas are seen at a new Panda breeding research centre in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan provincein September 2008. Two giant pandas will make their long-anticipated and highly-scrutinised trip from China to Taiwan this week, sealing a year of blossoming diplomatic ties between the two arch rivals.

Two giant pandas will make their long-anticipated and highly-scrutinised trip from China to Taiwan this week, sealing a year of blossoming diplomatic ties between the two arch rivals.

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