Death of giant panda mourned in Thai zoo

Farewell, gentle giant: Lin Hui was a female panda on a 10-year loan from China at the Chiang Mai Zoo. — AP

CHINA and Thailand will summarise the giant panda cooperation programme in the past two decades and discuss further cooperation, Chinese Consul General in Chiang Mai Wu Zhiwu said at a memorial event of giant panda “Lin Hui” in the northern Thai city.

“Experts from the two countries have been working closely in the past 20 years. We have good cooperation in giant panda’s raising, breeding, disease controlling and knowledge dissemination to the public, which are major parts of our giant panda international cooperation programme,” Wu said at the ceremony on Wednesday to mark the seventh day after the giant panda’s death in Chiang Mai Zoo.