Ueno Zoo invited some 4,400 lucky winners of an online lottery to see the pandas for the last time. Read more at straitstimes ...

By Tom Bateman TOKYO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Japanese panda lovers bid an emotional farewell to the country's last two giant pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, as they left Tokyo's Ueno Zoo for ...

The last remaining giant pandas in Japan, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, departed for China on Tuesday afternoon in a move that will leave Japan with no giant pandas for the first time in ...

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