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Curriculum changes not enough: Hung


Students from several high schools yesterday hold a demonstration against the Ministry of Education’s planned adjustments to the curriculum, outside Taipei Private Yan Ping High School in Daan District.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) yesterday weighed in on controversy over the Ministry of Education’s high-school curriculum adjustments, saying the changes were “too minor” and “far from enough.”

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Activists assail KMT over failed reform


Several civil groups rally outside Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) headquarters in Taipei yesterday, accusing the party of obstructing the passage of proposed constitutional amendments in the legislature on Tuesday.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

As scores of activists yesterday protested outside Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) headquarters over the legislature’s failure to pass proposed constitutional changes on Tuesday, KMT Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) blamed the opposition for obstructing the amendments for its own ends.

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Newsflash


Taipei City Councilor Miao Po-ya of the Social Democratic Party, right, speaks at a news conference held in Taipei yesterday by the Taiwan Association of University Professors and the Taiwan Forever Society in response to National Taiwan University professor Jerome Geaun’s remark that speaking Hoklo is similar to smoking cigarettes.
Photo: CNA

Academics and legal experts yesterday asked the Control Yuan to investigate alleged breaches of the National Languages Development Act (國家語言發展法) at National Taiwan University (NTU), after two professors instituted a rule that school meetings must be conducted in Mandarin only.