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)