### [2015-07-30](/feed/2015/07/30/index.md)

##### High school
# A Taiwanese high school student commits suicide by charcoal fumes after a protest against controversial Sinocentric revisions in a curriculum guideline; hundreds storm the education ministry in response. 




### Sources:

1. [AFP via Yahoo](https://news.yahoo.com/student-protester-suicide-deepens-political-row-taiwan-181837575.html)
2. [AP via Yahoo](https://news.yahoo.com/student-protesters-sit-taiwan-education-ministry-070214072.html)
3. [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33731411)
4. [Los Angeles Times](http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-taiwan-students-protest-20150731-story.html)
5. [Taipei Times](http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/07/31/2003624291)

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1. [China bans Taiwanese interior minister Liu Shyh-fang and education minister Cheng Ying-yao, along with their relatives, from entering the country, alleging their involvement in the Taiwan independence movement. ](/feed/2026/01/7/china-bans-taiwanese-interior-minister-liu-shyh-fang-and-education-minister-cheng-ying-yao-along-with-their-relatives.md) _Context: education minister_