Every morning at 7:30 a.m. sharp, a race begins on the outskirts of Chengdu, a sprawling Chinese metropolis known for its spicy hotpot, old tea houses and the country’s most beloved animal – giant ...

For much of world history, the giant panda was just a giant panda, a cute and much-coveted zoological curiosity. But over the last quarter of a century, China has been deploying pandas around the ...

What's black, white and back in the nation's capital? Giant pandas, at last. Now, after a requisite quarantine and brief preview period for zoo members, the panda exhibit and its accompanying Giant ...

Pandas have stood for friendship between China and Japan since 1972. But the last two are about to go, and a dispute over Taiwan could get in the way of sending more. By Javier C. Hernández and Hisako ...