This is already more than a week old, but it's too good to dismiss on those grounds. Check out this red panda at the Fuzhou Panda World in Fujian province, being all adorable to ridiculous levels. His name is Firefox, and it's no mere raccoon. In this 30-second clip, it basically makes everyone forget that other type of panda. We're told the red pandas at this reserve can also balance on balls and ride elec ...

"No pandas affected in Sichaun quake," reads this China Daily headline. Try telling that to the panda in the above video, filmed at the Bifeng Gorge Base of China Panda Protection and Research Center. We've never seen a panda move that fast, except maybe down slides. ...

Two pandas left Chengdu today for a 12,875-kilometer journey to Toronto, where they will stay for five years at the Toronto Zoo and then five more at Calgary Zoo. Er Shun, a female, and Da Mao, a male, are big deals, diplomatically speaking. They were assets in February 2012 talks between China and Canada, two countries whose relations had chilled due to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's insistence on dealing ...

The Sina Weibo user who posted this picture, @哥不一搬3285043987, appears to have absonded from social media, but he/she thinks this giant panda in Lanzhou, Gansu province is dying because the zoo can't feed it. The post: Lanzhou City Zoo's panda is the world's saddest panda. Thin and dirty. So hungry it can't even walk. Supervisors also will beat it. I beseech Lanzhou's mayor, even though we're Gansu poor, for ...

I don't want to steal pageviews from Sina English, which has just published probably its funniest set of captions ever, so go over there and check out "Zoo plays AV to help pandas mate." They run a total of three pictures, the captions to each are as follows: ...

In many ways, it’s a story that combines everything that makes the Chinese media gush: pandas, tea, X-thousand years of culture, little children wearing cute costumes... And poop. Panda poop. That’s the recipe behind what some are calling the most expensive tea ever created. Selling for an eye-popping 440,000 RMB per kilogram (about $32,000 per pound), the “Panda Tea” is the brainchild of artist/calligraphe ...

This newly opened hotel at the foot of Emei Mountain in Sichuan province, about 100 miles from Chengdu, is reportedly the first panda-themed hotel in the world. Checking in for a night comes with your free panda furry, apparently: ...

Maybe these cuddly creatures are useful for more than just their looks. Via The Telegraph: Scientists have discovered that the animals, of which there are around 1,600 in the wild, produce a powerful antibiotic in their blood stream that kills bacteria and fungi. They believe the substance could be used to create potent new treatments against drug resistant superbugs and other diseases. The antibiotic is th ...

Xiao Liwu, i.e. "Little Gift," was born on July 29 as "Sausage" (which is pretty adorable) before folks voted to change his name. Here he is getting a vet exam at his home in the San Diego Zoo. Follow him on his Panda Cam if you can stand it. ...

Reminds us of Purple Panda, which we continue having fond feelings for in all the right places. Via and Vogue is My Bitch (H/T Katie) ...

Showcasing the best in Asian-related memes. Sources: We Know Memes and Reddit (above, via Katie). ...

Via Weibo (H/T Alicia) ...

ANIMAL, it says. That's the best part. Hello -- yes, this is ANIMAL. This picture is part of a collection via Xinhua called "Beauty pageant of dogs." (There's something Xinhua isn't telling us, I'm sure.) Animal has absolutely no fashion sense, but what about this one here... ...

Showcasing the best in Asian-related memes. Source: China Memes ...

The giant panda "Si Jia" rests in Yunnan Safari Park in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, on Aug 12, 2012, on its 6th birthday. [Photo/Xinhua] (Via China Daily/Sina) Apologies for the server problems that took the site down this afternoon. But we're back... with links. ...

Via China Whisper: "July 11, Wuhan maximum temperature was over 35 degrees, Giant Panda 'Weiwei' was laying on the ice blocks to get rid of heat." Smart panda. Update, 1:40 pm:   ...

I'll tell you straight up that pandas on slides are nothing new. But look, it's International Panda Awareness Week, and pandas are wrecking havoc in London, and pandas are, after all, pandas, so I'm sure you can spare a couple minutes to watch Sina's newest videos of pandas. Four pandas. Babies. On a slide. One of them tumbles head over heels at the 1:21, and I swear, if you're drunk, it's hysterical. It's ...

For something called Panda Awareness Week (PAW), which starts today, 108 people in panda costumes milled about Trafalgar Square, representing the 108 pandas living at Chengdu Panda Base. No kids, as far as we know, bawled their eyes out in sheer terror. China Daily tells us that the pandas did tai chi, some other stuff. "This week's activities will run through July 6, with the pandas hosting a 'panda party' ...

I'm embarrassed to have gone so long without posting this, but last month, Chengdu tourism officials created a commercial promoting black-and-white "panda cabs" in London using Kate Middleton, Prince William, and the Queen impersonators, and the Daily Mail tells us, in its article yesterday, that Britons aren't too happy about it. Is it because the Duchess of Cambridge says, "I just don't understand why we ...

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