Answer:
I am an animal thatβs black white and asian.
You cannot keep me until you have given me. What am I?
I need to be taken from you before you can have me.
You throw me out when you use me and take me in when you are done.
With a halo of water and a tongue of wood; stone as skin long I stood.
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?