The Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) said in a statement on Monday that it celebrated Hoi Hoi’s 12th birthday with 30 parents and their children last Monday.
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The baby panda twins locally born to papa “Hoi Hoi” and mummy “Sam Sam” (“Hoi Sam” meaning happiness in Chinese) have officially been named “Kin Kin” and “Hong Hong”, which means “healthy” when combined as “Kin Hong” in Chinese. The names were chosen by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) from a total of […]
Giant panda papa Hoi Hoi celebrated his 8th birthday with children and “panda fans” at Coloane’s Macau Giant Panda Pavilion on Wednesday, according to a statement by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM). The statement said the bureau organised a birthday party and gathered about 40 children and “panda fans” to sing “Happy Birthday” […]
The Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) has announced that residents can propose names for the locally-born panda twins from Monday next week until the end of the month. According to an IACM statement, each resident can only submit one two-name suggestion and explain in no more than 160 Chinese characters why they have chosen […]
Local panda carer Chio Chong Kuan said Tuesday that Macau’s first locally born panda babies –Tai Pou and Sio Pou – were in good health, growing well and putting on weight. Chio said that Tai Pou, the elder cub, weighed over 1,000 grammes on Tuesday, an increase of 14 times over his birth weight, while Sio Pou, […]
Macau’s first locally born panda cubs are putting on weight, which was recorded on Saturday at 167.2 grammes for the first born and at 77.9 grammes for his younger sibling, the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) said in a statement on Sunday. The cubs are “in good health”, the statement said, adding that both […]
Previously named Hoi Hoi, the seven-year-old male giant panda known as Shuxiang in Putonghua, which had lived in Macau since 2010, returned yesterday to his birthplace in Sichuan to join a breeding programme. A Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) lorry took Shuxiang to the local airport from Coloane’s Oscar Farm, where he had been […]