Panda craze has once again gripped Hong Kong as residents compete to name the territory’s first locally-born giant panda cubs who just turned six months old

Contest launched day before ‘Elder Sister’ and ‘Younger Brother’ set to make their public debut at Ocean Park.

From harbor-front sculptures to posters and even a pyrotechnic drone show, Hong Kong is in a panda frenzy. The city’s six pandas are front and center in the government’s latest effort to boost its lackluster tourism industry and revive an economy that’s struggling to regain momentum.

Hong Kong's baby panda twins, a male and female, will debut publicly, marking the first pair born in the city. The event includes a tourism campaign with metro and exhibition pandas. The public is invited to name the cubs,

It appears – though the numbers published vary a bit – that our government is bleeding money on such a scale that the reserves will be run down in five or six years, placing us in the same boat as all those debt-addicted governments we have been looking down on.