BRUSSELS: When pandas Hao Hao and Xing Hui were loaned to Belgium it was not just a gesture of friendship from China, but the climax to Wallonia’s most eccentric and improbable business bet.
Their arrival last year at Pairi Daiza zoo came little more than two decades after Eric Domb found a dilapidated abbey in the Walloon outback and decided to give up being a lawyer to become a zoo-maker and wildlife impresario.