Jia
Jia, one of the four pandas living in Hong Kong, was euthanized on
16th Oct at the old age of 38. Jia Jia and An An were the
first pair of pandas to come to Hong Kong 17 years ago. Although two
younger pandas, Ying Ying and Le Le, were sent to the city in 2007,
they couldn’t match the popularity of An An and Jia Jia back in
1999. It might be because of a lack of novelty, or perhaps it was the
deterioration of relationship between Hong Kong and Beijing making
such friendly gesture less effective. When we mourn for the demise of
the adorable panda, we are also lamenting the loss of a care-free
life in which politics didn’t play an important part. An An is a
sad panda, but he is hardly the only one in the city.
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