Politicial and business luminaries paid their respects to Formosa Plastics Group (台塑集團) founder Wang Yung-ching’s (王永慶) family at a funeral hall in Taoyuan yesterday.
Wang died in his sleep on Wednesday in the US. He was 91. His body was flown back to Taipei early yesterday and was received at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport by his family. It was later moved to a memorial hall set up in Taoyuan’s Chang Gung University, which Wang founded.
Friends, family members and other mourners wept or knelt as Wang’s casket arrived at the university.
President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), accompanied by Taoyuan County Commissioner Chu Li-lun (朱立倫), arrived at the funeral hall yesterday afternoon and bowed in front of Wang’s picture before expressing his condolences to family members.
Vice President Vincent Siew (蕭萬長), Straits Exchange Foundation Chairman Chiang Pin-kung (江丙坤) and Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) were also among those who visited the hall yesterday.
Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) arrived with his wife Tseng Wen-hui (曾文惠).
“Mr Wang’s death is a huge loss to the nation, especially in a time of a global economic downturn. He would have helped Taiwan solve its problems should he have lived a few more years. It’s such a pity,” Lee told reporters. “I hope that in heaven he will bless Taiwan.”
The legislature held a minute’s silence yesterday to remember and honor Wang.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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