Female pandas Yi Yi and Sheng Yi were born in 2018 and 2021, respectively. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Malaysians bade farewell to two panda cubs, Yi Yi and Sheng Yi, as the two animals headed back to their homeland of China on Tuesday.
Together with their parents, the cubs were housed in the national zoo of Malaysia, Zoo Negara in Selangor, 5km from the city of Kuala Lumpur. China loans these animals to foreign countries as a goodwill gesture, an effort that has become popularly known as “panda diplomacy”. The 37-year-old housewife choked back tears as she recalled visiting the pandas every week to make TikTok videos.
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