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Student protesters return from walk across nation

Taipei Times

Students Hsu Kuan-tse, left, and Chou Tzu-hsiang, accompanied by supporters, walk through downtown Taipei yesterday on the final leg of a nationwide walking tour to protest changes to high-school curriculum guidelines.
Photo: Weng Yu-huang, Taipei Times

Two student-rights advocates returned to the main site of protests over high-school curriculum guideline changes yesterday, completing a national walking tour to highlight the issue.

Hsu Kuan-tse (許冠澤) and Chou Tzu-hsiang (周子翔) led a parade of students and rights advocates in front of the Ministry of Education building for the final leg of the tour, shouting: “Reject black box procedures”; “Oppose brain-washing education”; and “Students are not idiots” as they marched in pouring rain to the ministry gates.

Ma’s ineptitude new consensus in Taiwan: Tsai

Taipei Times

Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu, second left, listens as Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen addresses a crowd at the International Convention Center Kaohsiung yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Despite the nation’s serious political partisanship, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday said that a consensus over President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) ineptitude has formed between the pan-green and pan-blue camps while announcing her five reform proposals.

War memory off-kilter for KMT

Taipei Times Editorial

Yesterday marked the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, but it was surprisingly quiet in the former Japanese colony of Taiwan — which might have been the result of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government’s failed attempt to connect Taiwan to China through the nation’s colonial past.

Approval process still opaque: teachers

Taipei Times

Chang Hsu-cheng, president of the National Federation of Teachers’ Unions, right, speaks at a news conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times

The approval process for a new 12-year education plan continues to use the same opaque procedures behind earlier controversial adjustments to high-school curriculum guidelines, a teachers’ union alleged yesterday, calling for the process to be “rebooted.”

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