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Taiwan protesters rip up textbooks, demand minister's resignation

Published Sun, Aug 2, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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Taipei

NEARLY a thousand people rallied outside Taiwan's education ministry on Sunday, demanding the minister's resignation and the scrapping of what they describe as a "China-centric" high school curriculum.

The protesters, whom police estimated at around 800, ripped up the new versions of textbooks printed under the new curriculum guidelines.

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