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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.

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.

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