Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand after having their heads shaved -- a symbolic start to a centuries-old Shan monkhood ...

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Giant panda Tai Shan, who once called the Smithsonian’s National Zoo his home and now lives in China, turned 12 on Sunday. U.S.-born #panda Tai Shan celebrates 12th birthday in Sichuan pic ...

The National Zoo’s giant panda cub, known to its keepers simply as “the Cub” since his birth 100 days ago, finally has a name: Tai Shan.