Students Protest at Taiwan Education Ministry

Dozens of students launched a sit-in Friday at Taiwan's Education Ministry demanding that officials take responsibility for a student leader who killed himself in an apparent protest over curriculum changes that critics say overemphasize China's ties to the island. The students jumped a security gate overnight and set up tents and stools near the building's main entrance on Friday, holding placards demanding the resignation of the education minister while dozens of police...

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