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ACCUSATIONS: A falling boom triggered 16 alerts when it hit the tracks, but the control center did not call the station, focusing instead on assessing electrical issuesBy Tsai Shu-yuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer and CNA
The Control Yuan yesterday asked the Ministry of Education to supervise local governments’ efforts to develop effective methods to help students with emotional and behavioral disorders, and diffuse tension between families and schools regarding the handling of incidents caused by such disorders.
A report by Control Yuan members Wang Yu-ling (王幼玲) and Yeh Yi-jin (葉宜津) found that students’ emotional and behavioral outbursts can be understood as calls for help, but are often misrepresented as acts of vandalism, causing students to suffer even greater emotional stress.
Out of the 92,638 elementary school, junior-high school and high-school students who were last year registered as
Update: On March 26, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office announced that Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che had been formally arrested on charges of “subverting state power.” Jerome Cohen has added a new comment to this essay. To skip to that comment, click here.Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-che mysteriously disappeared in China on March 19.