Before last year's Shanghai World Expo, Beijing Zoo was known for its endangered indigenous species: giant pandas, Siberian tigers and the Tibetan gazelle. Pretty soon it may include another beast altogether: flying men from Latvia ricocheting around vertical wind tunnels.
From May until October last year I spent almost every day surrounded by hundreds of diamonds as the assistant manager of the Diamond Exhibition Corner of the Belgian Pavilion at Expo Shanghai 2010.
More than 73 million visits were recorded for the six-month Shanghai World Expo 2010. It might seem a staggering number; indeed, it was a historic high, but in my opinion, more people should have come to see it.