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Group demands UN membership

Saturday, 18 September 2010 05:20 Taipei Times

A pro-Taiwanese independence civic group embarked yesterday on a weeklong journey to New York City to advocate the country’s right to bid for UN membership under the name Taiwan.

At a press conference held in Taipei yesterday before their departure, the group said “the annual trip to New York marks a continued effort by the people of Taiwan since 1979 to express their wish to be recognized by the UN.”

MOE holds first hearing on new history curriculum

Friday, 17 September 2010 09:56 Taipei Times

The Ministry of Education’s first public hearing on a controversial draft of high school history curriculum guidelines ended yesterday amid debates over whether Taiwan’s history should be traced back to ancient Chinese history.

During the hearing held at Taipei Municipal Zhongshan Girls High School, pro-independence groups protested the ministry’s draft to merge ancient Taiwanese history with that of ancient Chinese.

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Thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong yesterday to mark the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989.
Photo: Reuters

Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers joined a candlelight vigil last night marking the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square Massacre, an annual commemoration that takes on greater meaning for the territory’s young after last autumn’s pro-democracy demonstrations sharpened their sense of unease with Beijing.