Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/26
By: Elaine Hou and Ko Lin 

Taipei, Dec. 26 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced Tuesday that it will recall several hundred of the next-generation biometric passports already issued because they contain an image of Washington’s Dulles International Airport rather than Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

A total of 200,000 of the new e-passports have already been printed, of which 285 have been issued to the public since Monday, according to MOFA.

The embarrassment came to light earlier in the day when a local report pointed out the error, saying that netizens recognized the image of the U.S. airport printed in one of inner pages of the passport.    [FULL  STORY]