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KMT Taipei City Councillor Yang Qitu, who had suggested Shen might be ill for making the claims, publicly apologised and said he was wrong and sorry, as the case dovetailed with Shen's combative appearance on TVBS's Shao Kang War Room, where host Chao Shao Kang pressed him on marijuana policy and the death penalty.

Next in political news, Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Su Chia-ching tearfully resigned on Tuesday after the Taiwan People's Party accused her family of parasitizing the council, alleging her 14-year-old son had posed as an official photographer on overseas trips and that her husband used ministry cars.

Xu had previously been fined 100,000 New Taiwan Dollars by the Control for failing to recuse herself from a conflict of interest.

Premier Zhuo Zhongtai accepted her resignation to protect her reputation, praising her year in office, and asked Deputy Minister Li Yanhui, who had also offered to resign, to stay on as acting head of the council.

The union said it would continue to work hard for the old brand.

Next in politics, Taiwan's Overseas Community Affairs Council Minister Shu Chia-ching is under fire over an official trip to Vancouver.

The Taiwan People's Party caucus accused her of misusing public funds to bring her husband and teenage son along on the visit, where she attended the North American Taiwanese Women's Association annual meeting.

The association's Vancouver chapter said the minister attended the annual dinner alone and that her family had traveled to visit her and joined only a music event.

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On September 18th, the Dublin School of Mandarin Chinese, with support from Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Overseas Community Affairs Council, and the Taiwan-Ireland Association, hosted a screening of the documentary, A Chip Odyssey – at Dublin's Savoy Cinema as part of Culture Night 2026.

I went along to find out more about the film, its story and Taiwan's remarkable semiconductor journey.

And first, I spoke with Yvonne Forlong from the Dublin School of Mandarin Chinese and asked her about her connection with the film.