Advanced Search
Business | Metro | Nation | World | Sports | Features | Specials | Delta Stories
 
 
Wang Daohan's funeral held
30/12/2005 15:56

image

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin walks past the coffin of Wang Daohan, president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), in Longhua Funeral House in Shanghai, December 30, 2005. - Xinhua

 

image

Chinese vice president Zeng Qinghong attends Wang Daohan's funeral today.
(Photo: eastday.com)


image

Yen Cho-yun, widow of Koo Chen-fu, arrives at the funeral of Wang Daohan, president of the mainland-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), in Longhua Funeral House in Shanghai, December 30, 2005. Wang died at the age of 90 on December 24, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of Koo Chen-fu's death in Taiwan, according to Chinese lunar calendar. Koo, chairman of the Taiwan-based Strait Exchange Foundation, and Wang in his role as president of ARATS made a milestone negotiation in Singapore in 1993, setting up the basis for any future dialogues between the two organizations. (Source: Chinadaily.com/Newsphoto)