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Protesters storm out of ministry forum


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.

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Student protesters camp out outside ministry gates


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.

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Newsflash


Supporters of the Occupy Central with Love and Peace movement march during a protest in Hong Kong yesterday.
Photo: EPA

Thousands of pro-democracy activists clad in black marched silently through Hong Kong yesterday, holding banners saying they felt betrayed and angry at Beijing’s refusal to allow fully democratic elections for the territory’s next chief executive in 2017.

The protesters, who carried enormous black cloth ribbons through the streets, also held up signs calling for further civil disobedience and cheering on students planning to boycott classes.