'Goodwill' pandas leave China for Taiwan

A pair of pandas left China today on a long-awaited goodwill journey to their new home in Taiwan, in the latest move symbolising the warming ties between the two countries.

State television carried live coverage of “Tuan Tuan” and “Yuan Yuan” being carefully loaded onto a special charter flight, and the plane gently lifting off from the Chengdu airport in Sichuan province for three-hour flight to Taiwan.