It sure sounds like it! According to the Telegraph, six of these Panda Ambassadors will get to spend this October working at the famous Woolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center - and you could be one of them! more ›

People love the pandas Shanghai shipped over from Sichuan for the Expo! So as a feel good start to this Tuesday morning, here's a video from The Telegraph's Malcolm Moore of super cute Chinese kids explaining in super cute detail exactly how super cute those Expo pandas are. more ›

It's Day Two of the Expo pandas and, predictably, Shanghai is going crazy for them. The ten panda cubs are fresh off the plane from the Woolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center outside of Chengdu and, according to all relevant parties, adjusting swimmingly. more ›

Following the birth of 2009's first panda cub in Thailand (on May 29 at the Chiang Mai Zoo), Chinese experts have now expressed their intention to make sure the vitality of the father gets passed on to all the pandaettes in China. more ›

Yesterday marked the worldwide premier of what's poised to be this year's feel good flick: Disney-produced panda movie 熊猫回家路 (Xiongmao huijia lu). more ›

• Mandarin Chinese profanity [Wikipedia] "While many offensive words and expletives involve insulting someone's mother, it is also common to show contempt by scorning another person's ancestors. Other Mandarin insults accuse people of not being human. Unlike English, Mandarin words for excrement or feces are less commonly used in slang and insults. Also, there are few parallels to English's blasphemous phrases, such as 'God damn it'."
• NKorea premier ends China visit [AFP] North Korean Premier Kim Yong-Il Saturday wrapped up his first visit to China, which came two weeks before Pyongyang's planned launch of a satellite, the Xinhua news agency reported. Kim's visit, which began Tuesday, was his first since taking office in 2007 and was officially to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations.
• Earthquake Pandas Go Home (with video!) [BBC] "Eight young pandas have returned to their native Sichuan province, after being relocated to Beijing, following last year's earthquake. Large crowds turned out to visit the pandas on their last weekend in Beijing before they are flown back to Sichuan province. The pandas will have a new home in Sichuan province with indoor air conditioning and outdoor swimming pools."