A female baby panda was born on Aug. 1 in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, home to most of China's pandas. It weighs 176 grams and is the first surviving test-tube panda cub of this year. China has successfully bred giant pandas in captivity through artificial insemination -- the method of choice in the fight to save the notoriously slow-reproducing national symbol. [Xinhua]
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