Hundreds protest in Taipei after student suicide

Local policemen stand guard outside the Education Ministry in Taipei during a demonstration of student protesters on July 30, 2015.

Taipei (AFP) - Hundreds of protesters gathered in Taipei early on Friday calling for the education minister to resign after a student committed suicide, amid a deepening row over the island's "China-centric" school curriculum.

Several hundred people, some holding white roses and candles, congregated outside the education ministry at midnight to bid farewell to 20-year-old Lin Kuan-hua, who police said killed himself in his New Taipei City home Thursday morning.