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Group demands UN membership

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

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.

What Kan's victory means for Taiwan

Taiwan News Editorial

The victory of incumbent Japanese Prime Minister Kan Naoto in Tuesday's election for the presidency of the governing centrist Democratic Party of Japan over former DPJ secretary-general Ozawa Ichiro will both allow Kan to avoid the fate of being a "three - month" prime minister and exercise significant influence on the political situation in Northeast Asia.

First, most observers believed that Ozawa's diplomatic policy stance was more inclined to "move close to China and distant from the U.S." or even to use the objections of the majority of Okinawan people to the continuation of U.S. bases, to pressure Washington to agree to remove the controversial U.S. Marine Corps Air Base at Futenma.

KMT keen to distort history as well

Nathan Novak 李漢聲

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) did his own bit of distorting history on Thursday with his assertion that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) defeated the Japanese in the Chinese war of resistance against Japanese invasion from 1937 to 1945. Even though Ma and the KMT’s claims are stronger than those made by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), they are only slightly so.

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