TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A protest against a pension reform plan culminated in a brief break-in into the Ministry of Education on Sunday. A crowd of retirees began gathering outside the Presidential Office early Sunday as the government kicked off a national affairs conference on pension reform. Organizers said more than 30,000 turned out to protest the government's reform plan, which threatens to make severe cuts to the pensions of civil servants. Angry demonstrators, including the retirees' advocacy group Pension Reform Oversight Alliance (監督年金改革行動聯盟), called the government "incapable and untrustworthy," and demanded that President Tsai Ing-wen step down. The Oversight Alliance said in a statement that civil servants, military officers and teachers had been mistreated by the government, and had been left with no choice but to take to the streets.

Source: The China Post January 22, 2017 16:20 UTC