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Ministry boosts defenses after student incursion

Taipei Times

Police escort students protesting adjustments to high-school curriculum guidelines outside the Ministry of Education in Taipei Friday night.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

The Ministry of Education yesterday announced new security measures following a third intrusion late on Friday night by students protesting adjustments to high-school curriculum guidelines.

Rows of 3m-tall iron barricades were put up around the ministry and the nearby K-12 Education Administration building late on Friday night, replacing barbed wire within the ministry’s short perimeter fence.

Taiwan passport & nationality

John Hsieh 謝鎮寬

There are two Koreas in the world today they are the South Korea and the North Korea but we have not heard of one Korea policy at all although they are looking for a unified nation. Furthermore, before the East/West German merged as one today there was not one German policy neither the North/South Vietnam. Why is there a one China policy that bothered Taiwan people to face it? Isn’t it funny and weird there is none claiming one USA, one Japan, one France or one Russia why China keeps asking for one China? Obviously, there is more than one that’s why they are hunger for the only one.

Education shows Ma’s obstinance

Taipei Times Editorial

In President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) New Year’s Day address marking the Republic of China’s centennial in 2011, he pledged “to create a sounder educational environment for our young people” and stressed that “education is the cornerstone of national power and children are our hope for the future.”

So much for flowery language.

Reform key to creation of national structure

Lee Min-yung 李敏勇

In 1996, Taiwan held its first direct presidential election. As a native Taiwanese and a member of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), then-president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) played a key role in the nation’s transition to democracy. This offered an opportunity for the KMT to transform itself into a “Taiwanese Nationalist Party” and for the Republic of China (ROC) to gain a new lease on life here in Taiwan.

If Taiwan could have had a new constitution as a result, the ROC in exile would have entered history, putting an end to the period between 1949 and 1996, although, since the writing and implementation of a new constitution would take some time, that would perhaps not have happened until 2000.

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