The female panda cub born at Chiang Mai zoo last month will soon have a name after more than 300 different suggestions were submitted in a national naming contest.
The 20-day old panda cub is reported to be in excellent health, having put on more than 650 grams (1.44 pounds) since it was born and now being nursed full-time by it’s mother, Lin Hui.
The committee set up to oversee the naming of the new cub said it received over 300 names on more than 560,000 postcards submitted by the public in the last few weeks.
The four names selected are:
Kwan Thai – a Thai expression meaning, “darling of the Thai people”.
Lin Bing – Chinese for “a forest of ice”. The word bing is also very similar in Chinese pronunciation to “ping”, the name of Chiang Mai’s major river.
Tai Jin – meaning “Thai gold” but can also refer to the Thai-Chinese relationship as “jin” is the Thai way of saying China.
Ying Ying – Chinese for “prosperity”, while in Thai “ying” means girl.
Read more of the article here.
This article is written by John.
