Fake Reporter
Ling Ling, the giant panda of Tokyo's Ueno Park Zoo died of heart failure April 30, leaving its fans of all age in deep sorrow. He was 22 years and seven months old.
Originary from China, Ling Ling was born on the 5th of September 1985 and started to serve at Ueno Park Zoo on the 5th November 1992, when he was seven years old.
The zoo started to keep giant pandas since 1972, when the Chinese government gave Japan Kang Kang and Lan Lan. Since then, giant pandas became the site's main attraction.
Optimistic political analysts depict this loss as an opportunity to break the diplomatic ice between the Empire of the Rising Sun and the "Empire du millieux"(another appelation of China in French, more litterary), with the recent visit of Chinese Premier Hu Jintao, as he proposed to lease two other giant pandas.
But reactions are not always positive.
The price proposed by Hu Jintao for the pair of giant pandas is about one million US$. News reports said that Hu mentionned leasing two other pandas to the zoo while he was meeting Emperor Akihito. During the conversation, he said he hopes Japanese people keep on appreciating pandas, and he would like to make it possible that these two countries commonly study pandas; therefore he would like to provide a new pair of pandas, and that kids would keep on admiring this kind of animal.
Well, probes on public opinions seems to reflect more cons than pros... This is a problem that the Fukuda cabinet has to solve... Let's see what happens then.
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