Netizens call him “nai pa” on Chinese social media, or “‘nanny daddy”. Akmal Hadi Samsuddin is a panda keeper at Zoo Negara who gets praises for his dedicated care of Feng Yi and Fu Wa, the two giant pandas on loan to Malaysia by China since 2014.

Pandas are notoriously hard to breed in captivity but Zoo Negara produced a record number of baby pandas that lived beyond infancy. Watch more to find out how Akmal and his team did it, and why that placed Malaysia on the radar of the Chinese public.

00:00 Introduction
01:18 Challenges of being a panda caretaker
03:02 How Zoo Negara keeps pandas mating
04:30 Panda cub misses her Malaysian panda nanny


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About the show: Panda Power delves into the significant role played by pandas in enhancing international relations between China and other nations.
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