Hello Kitty is getting a running start ahead of the Beijing Olympics, expanding her kingdom of cute with a new panda costume.

Ahead of next year’s Summer Games, Japan’s iconic cat will merge with China’s most popular animal in a new design depicting Hello Kitty in a panda-like black and white outfit.

“The Olympics are coming up. That is what we have in mind,” said Kazuo Tomatsu, a spokesman for Hello Kitty maker Sanrio Co.

The company has yet to unveil the exact products for the Olympic tie-in.

Hello Kitty, which is popular among girls and adult women alike, is also adding a new product line showing different sides of the cat — as a little devil and an angel.

The black devil character features Hello Kitty with tiny horns and a tail, while the white angel sports a pair of wings.

Along with stuffed figures, the devil and angel characters will be used for perfumes, lingerie and accessories, among other products.

Reports in Henan have found evidence that child kidnappings happen to provide free child slave labour for kiln brick factories in Henan province, desperate parents who’se children have been Kidnapped have unearthed this and police have been investigating this case.

Despite the massive modernization in China the size of China makes it also difficult to control what happens as part of this modernization and rush for material greed and this is just one such example, similar to the kidnappings of City girls to become forced Wives of male farmers in rural China who, because of the 1 child policy, have no choice as the women leave the farms and the next generation is all men and boys (and spoilt as well, as they are the only (grand) child in a family of 12.