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Protesters storm out of ministry forum

Taipei Times

Students from Tainan National First High School yesterday unfurl banners during a meeting held by the Ministry of Education to discuss the government’s planned changes to high-school curriculum guidelines. The students asked that Minister of Education Wu Se-hwa respond to their concerns in person.
Photo: Wang Chun-chung, Taipei Times

Students from the Northern Taiwan Anti-Curriculum Changes Alliance yesterday stormed out of a Ministry of Education sponsored forum in Taipei on controversial adjustments to high-school curriculum guidelines.

Student protesters camp out outside ministry gates

Taipei Times

High-school students display placards against the revision of curriculum guidelines at a demonstration in front of the education ministry in Taipei on Tuesday.
Photo: Sam Yeh, AFP

High-school students camped outside the Ministry of Education gates yesterday, rallying for the withdrawal of controversial high-school curriculum guidelines.

The KMT is going back to the future

Taipei Times

The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) less-than-one-minute nomination procedure to name Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) as its presidential candidate appeared almost surreal: The party chairman asked for approval from the National Congress attendees and then believed he received it as the venue resounded with cheers and applause.

However, the surrealism emanated not from the formalism of the demonstration, but the inconsistency between the nomination and Hung’s words.

Chinese intrigued by Taipei 228 Memorial Museum

Taiwan Tati Cultural & Educational Foundation

It took Faith Hong about a half-hour to run through a century of history and a lifetime of propaganda.

That is her mission as a volunteer at the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum, where she guided her visitors from China through the somber displays, describing the events that set off the killing in 1947 of as many as 28,000 people.

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