FTFM Taiwan's defence minister offered to resign on Wednesday amid criticism that the army mobilised too slowly after Typhoon Morakot triggered flooding and mudslides that killed an estimated 500 people.
Chen Chao-min is the third cabinet official to offer to quit in the last two days as the political fallout from one of Taiwan's worst natural disasters in recent years spreads. Some 11,000 people remain stranded in the mountains without water or electricity, 11 days after the storm pounded the island.
