Chinese NBA star Yao Ming left Taipei on Sunday afternoon by air
after a three-day visit to the island.
The Houston Rockets center attended a basketball friendship
match held in Taiwan University in which Yao scored 26 with seven
slam dunks, making more than 3,000 Yao's fans to scream.
It is the third time that Yao has visited Taiwan.
Yao visited the Taipei 101, the world's tallest completed
skyscraper just after his arrival on Friday evening.
Yao, together with his broker and five officials of the China
Basketball Association, stayed at the Sherwood Taipei with special
prepared king size bed measuring 2.6 meters long and 2.4 meters
wide for the 2.26-meter-high basketball giant.
Yao went to Hsinchu on Saturday and taught schoolchildren how to
play basketball and visited a restaurant run by a basketball star
in Taiwan who is also Yao's friend.
(Xinhua News Agency September 10, 2007)