TAIPEI: Taiwan's minister for China affairs announced his resignation Tuesday to take responsibility for forcing his former deputy to resign last year after suspecting that he had leaked official secrets.

Wang Yu-chi, the head of the Cabinet's Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), said at a press conference that he felt sorry for the social turmoil caused by the case involving former MAC deputy chief Chang Hsien-yao and that he would take responsibility for it.

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