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Taiwan children get sneak preview of pandas
AFP - Sunday, January 25
TAIPEI (AFP) - - Around 500 deprived Taiwanese children were on Saturday treated to a special preview of two giant pandas presented to the island as a gift from China.
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou joined the children, all from poor households, as they watched Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan eat bamboo at Taipei Zoo in the company of the city's mayor.
The animals' enclosure will open to the general public to mark the arrival of the Lunar New Year on Monday after they complete a 30-day quarantine, zoo officials said.
City authorities have spent about 10 million US dollars on an enclosure for the four-year-old pair and hope they will attract six million visitors a year. Zoo officials expect 17,600 people a day to queue for a a two-minute viewing.
The pandas arrived in Taipei last month from their birthplace in China's Sichuan province as part of a series of measures by the two sides to ease tensions that have lasted since the civil war split them in 1949.
"Tuanyuan" -- a combination of the Chinese characters of the pandas' names -- means "reunion" or "unity".
China offered the island pandas during a historic trip to the mainland by then Taiwanese opposition leader Lien in 2005. But the government of pro-independence former president Chen Shui-bian rejected the offer, calling it a ploy.
Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan were earmarked for Taiwan in 2006, but their arrival was only made possible after Beijing-friendly Ma took office last year.
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