A pair of giant pandas has arrived in Taiwan as a gift from China in the latest move symbolizing warming ties between the rivals.Taiwanese television has shown pictures of a green-liveried Eva Airways jet touching down at Taipei airport carrying ‘Tuan Tuan’ and ‘Yuan Yuan’ after the three-hour flight from Chengdu in Sichuan province.Taken together the pandas’ names mean reunion _ underscoring Chinese hopes that the animals’ arrival in Taiwan will spur unity between the sides, 59 years after they split amid civil war.
