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[makapaaa]

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->AFTER reading yesterday's report, 'China sending two pandas to Singapore', I would like to thank Chinese President Hu Jintao and the Chinese government and its people for the two wonderful gifts of VIPs (Very Important Pandas).
Singapore is indeed honoured to receive such VIPs because pandas are China's national treasures.
I am a nature and animal lover and it is a dream come true that Singapore will receive the two VIPs by 2011.
I believe many in Singapore will look forward to visiting the two VIPs at the zoo when they arrive.
I also hope the two VIPs will produce baby pandas during their stay in Singapore, so as to help increase the population of pandas.
Last but not least, I would like to welcome President Hu to Singapore for the Apec 2009 meeting and wish him and all Chinese in China the best of health.
Ace Kindred Cheong

 

[Faidenk]

Pandas are the modern day white elephants. Just google panda upkeep. It's reportedly $3000 a day. Anyone's guess if this include the construction of the enclosure (air-con?).

They eat 40 kgs of air-flown bamboo shoots a day, each, and cared for by 4 curators, including the mandatory Chinese. Even the Atlanta Zoo in the US is mulling over returning the 2 pandas to the Chinese as they are such a drain on the zoo's budget.

And we got the pandas because of special relationship with China?

 

[cooleo]

What a sad guy Ace Kindred Chong is. I can only imagine the teen anguish his kid will experience when he is named Beta Kindred Chong. lol

 

[Watchman]

• For every panda deployed is attached with a foreign attache or consultant .

with minimum work contract .