August 6, 2013: Baby panda born at Taipei Zoo

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link via Neatorama and the Taipei Zoo facebook photo stream.

This is bigger news because the babbeh was borned of pandas gifted to Taiwan from China.

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan were given to Taiwan by China in December 2008 and have become both star attractions at Taipei Zoo.

The island nation will be allowed to keep the cub as the panda couple were a gift from China rather than a loan, Taipei officials have said.

Beijing usually only loans its pandas and any progeny must be sent back to China.

China's decision to give Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan to Taiwan was a symbolic gesture to show warming ties between Taiwan and China.