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Student slips by police in Taipei rally


Student Yu Teng-chieh, center, scuffles with police outside the Ministry of Education in Taipei yesterday during a protest against curriculum adjustments.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

In an apparent attempt to petition Minister of Education Wu Se-hwa (吳思華) over a set of controversial adjustments to high-school curriculum guidelines, a high-school student yesterday managed to break through a police cordon in front of the ministry’s building in Taipei, but was handcuffed and detained.

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Students rally against altered curricula


High-school students protesting in Taipei yesterday against planned alterations to high-school curriculum guidelines hold banners and umbrellas bearing slogans outside the Ministry of Education’s K-12 Education Administration.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

Hundreds of high-school students in Taipei yesterday protested against what they said was the Ministry of Education’s “China-centric” alterations to curricula.

Protesters said their use of an image of a black umbrella looming over Taiwan signified the ministry’s “opaque” and “arbitrary” manipulation of textbooks.

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Sovereignty of nations

Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) sparked controversy when she said that she could not say that the Republic of China (ROC) exists. Though she later played down the comment, she actually pointed out something essential in cross-strait relations — maybe it is time for Taiwan and China to recognize each other as sovereign nations.

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Safeguarding Taiwan’s democracy

At the recently concluded US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Washington, top US officials rebuked China’s behavior in cybertheft and demanded that China terminate its island-building in the South China Sea, which has heightened tensions in the region.

At the opening of the meetings on June 23, US vice president Joe Biden said that China was not a “responsible competitor” in cyberspace.

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Newsflash

Following a third failed attempt by opposition parties to hold a referendum on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday called on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to support another referendum proposal or face a boycott at next week’s provisional legislative session.

“Let’s not get into fistfights on the floor. Let’s put the [ECFA] to a referendum and see who wins the support of the public,” DPP Legislator Gao Jyh-peng (高志鵬) told a press conference.