TAIPEI (Reuters) - A long-awaited pair of giant pandas from Taiwan's political rival China should reach the island two days before Christmas, symbolic of a recent thaw in ties between the two sides, an official said on Thursday.
The Taipei zoo is in line to receive the bears Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, whose names said together mean "unite", by that date as the quarantine paperwork had just come through, said Kao Koong-lian, secretary general of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation.
