Huangpu is a district of pigeon fanciers and the skies over Shanghai have seen birds racing back to their coops for the best part of a century. Words and pictures by Jonathan Browning.
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07/05: On the trail of a new panda film
May 23, 2011
Starring alongside the pandas in Disney's new "Trail of the Pnada" is Daichi Harashima, an 11-year-old Chinese-Japanese actor who plays an orphan on a quest to bring a panda cub back to its mother.
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