Hundreds of business and political celebrities and company staff bid their farewell to Hong Kong’s richest woman Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum here Wednesday at her lavish funeral.
The elite who turned out at Wang’s funeral service included Rita Fan, President of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, the richest Chinese tycoon Li Ka-shing and representative officials from the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong.
Tung Chee-hwa, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese Political Consultative Conference, China’s top political advisory body, Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang and director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong Gao Siren had already paid their respects to Wang on Tuesday.
Wang, chairwoman of Chinachem Group, died of illness on April 3.
Born in 1937 in Shanghai, Wang was one of the world’s richest people listed by the Forbes magazine and known among the Hong Kong public for her symbolic pigtails.
She was once under the media spotlight for also 10 years because of a lengthy sensational legal battle with her father-in-law Wang Din-shin over her missing husband Teddy Wang’s estate worth billions.
The Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong ruled in 2005 that Nina Wang was the sole beneficiary of her husband’s estate.
Teddy Wang, who was kidnapped on April 10, 1990, and never seen again, was declared legally dead on Sept. 22, 1999.