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School drops bowing to Sun Yat-sen

Wednesday, 03 February 2016 09:13 Taipei Times

A screen grab taken yesterday from Kao-hsiung Municipal Senior High School’s Facebook page shows an announcement that the school is to abolish the practice of bowing to portraits of the Republic of China’s founding father Sun Yat-sen.
Photo: Fang Chih-hsien, Taipei Times

Kaohsiung Municipal Senior High School will no longer make its students bow to portraits of Republic of China (ROC) founding father Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙) and the ROC flag at its end-of-semester ceremony, school officials said yesterday.

Ma’s visit is ‘unhelpful,’ AIT says

Thursday, 28 January 2016 08:34 Taipei Times

The Republic of China’s national flag yesterday flies from the top of a small tower on Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island) in the South China Sea.
Photo: Luo Tien-pin, Taipei Times

The US is disappointed at President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) announcement yesterday that he is to today visit Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島), the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) said, calling it an “unhelpful” move.

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High-school students protesting in Taipei yesterday against planned alterations to high-school curriculum guidelines hold banners and umbrellas bearing slogans outside the Ministry of Education’s K-12 Education Administration.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

Hundreds of high-school students in Taipei yesterday protested against what they said was the Ministry of Education’s “China-centric” alterations to curricula.

Protesters said their use of an image of a black umbrella looming over Taiwan signified the ministry’s “opaque” and “arbitrary” manipulation of textbooks.