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‘Dogma’ returning: education group


A page from a textbook based on previous high-school curriculum guidelines says that people’s identification with being Taiwanese has been on the increase since 1996. Photo: provided by Huang I-chung

Action Coalition of Civics Teachers spokesman Huang I-chung (黃益中) said the Ministry of Education’s changes to high-school curriculum guidelines allowed it to sneak in the desiccated corpse of party-state education of bygone days.

The dogma of the past might be making a comeback in some parts of new high-school civic education textbooks after its removal nine years ago, Huang said.

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Lu, TSU bring treason charges against Lien


Peter Wang, left, and Chilly Chen, 908 Taiwan Republic Campaign convener and deputy secretary-general respectively, stand below a message that they wrote on the wall of the old Taipei City Council building denouncing former vice president Lien Chan as a traitor.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

Former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and a lawmaker yesterday filed separate charges of treason against former vice president Lien Chan (連戰), accusing him of breaching national security by attending a Chinese military parade marking the end of World War II in Beijing on Thursday.

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Czech Economic and Cultural Office Representative Patrick Rumlar, fourth left, and members of the Republic of China-Czech Parliamentary Amity Association, including association head Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wan Mei-ling, center, attend an inauguration ceremony in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Lawmakers from across party lines yesterday established two parliamentary friendship groups aimed at improving relations with the Czech Republic and Spain at an inauguration ceremony at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.