Tens of thousands protest against contentious Taiwan parliament reforms

News Snapshot:

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets around Taiwan's parliament on Friday to demonstrate against contested parliamentary reforms, in a protest also marked by anger over China's perceived influence on the island's democracy. The rally outside parliament, following one on Tuesday, came on the same day China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, carried out a second day of war games around the island Beijing has said were launched to punish Taiwan's new president, Lai Ching-te, who it calls a "separatist". Lai's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is trying to stop the opposition, who together have a majority...