Our Monday morning stroll around the world

🇨🇳 A Chinese zoo is drawing attention – and backlash – for its “panda dogs” exhibit. In recent weeks, the Taizhou Zoo in Jiangsu, China, has gone viral on the country’s social media sites over videos showing an exhibit in which a pair of dogs are painted white and black to look like panda bears. Zoo officials say the animals are a breed of dog called Chow Chows, and that they’re clearly advertised as “panda dogs,” not true pandas. Nonetheless, some Chinese state media sources have criticized the zoo for misleading visitors and mistreating the dogs.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka has elected a new president. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, a Marxist lawmaker whose pro-working class and anti-political elite campaigning made him popular among youth, defeated incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe and other challengers on Saturday’s ballot, per Sri Lanka’s Election Commission. The election came as Sri Lanka is experiencing an ongoing five-year economic crisis widely described as its worst since gaining independence in 1948.

🚢🇬🇧 The late UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht may contain sensitive intel. Italian prosecutors believe the sunken yacht may have a watertight safe containing highly sensitive data tied to a number of Western intelligence services, and are asking for heightened security to guard the sunken vessel over concerns foreign governments might try to access it, multiple sources told CNN. Lynch was associated with UK, US, and other intelligence services through Darktrace, the cybersecurity firm he founded.