Taiwan's New Passports Had One Big Problem

An official in Taiwan has stepped down from her post after what looks to be a multimillion-dollar mistake involving hundreds of thousands of passports. Focus Taiwan reports that Agnes Chen, the chief of the country's Bureau of Consular Affairs, resigned Wednesday after it was discovered the nation's new passport had on it a picture of DC's Dulles International Airport instead of Taiwan's Taoyuan International Airport. 

The wrong image was imprinted on 200,000 new passports, which will now be sent back to the printer to be redone; 285 passports that were already handed out will be recalled.

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