IN VIETNAM-Taiwan has convicted five students who stormed the education ministry last year to protest a school curriculum seen as skewed towards Beijing.

The students were among a group of demonstrators angry over controversial curriculum changes which they said favoured China’s view of the island’s history.

The new curriculum — introduced by the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang government which was then in power — sparked a string of protests and the suicide of a student activist, reflecting growing concerns over increased Chinese influence on Taiwan particularly among the young.

Taiwan is self-ruling since splitting from the mainland in 1949 after a civil war — but it has never formally declared independence and China still sees it as part of its territory.

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