The China Post
Date: October 18, 2016
By: Yuan-Ming Chiao
TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Tsai Ing-wen visited Thailand’s representative office in Taipei on Monday
President Tsai Ing-wen visits a makeshift memorial at the Thailand Trade and Economic Office in Taipei on Monday, Oct. 17, following the death of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week.
(CNA)
to pay respects after the death of the country’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week.
The president visited a makeshift memorial at the Thailand Trade and Economic Office, clasping her hands together and bowing to Thai diplomatic officials who received her in a room bedecked in white and black and vases with white flowers and a painting of the late Bhumibol.
Thai officials showed the president a wall of photos depicting the king’s state visit to Taiwan in 1963, in which the king could be seen accompanied by host former President Chiang Kai-shek.
Meanwhile, the Presidential Office denied local media reports that Tsai was planning to make a trip to attend the king’s funeral in Thailand and had requested that national carrier China Airlines prepare a chartered flight for such purposes.
“Such a report does not conform to the truth. We have made no such plans,” the Presidential Office said in a subsequent statement. [FULL STORY]
