Taiwan's Overseas Community Affairs Council chief Hsu Chia-ching faces a ruling party ethics review after helping her son join a government-run trip to Dongsha Island, a political headache for the DPP and a talking point for the opposition.

• The Control Yuan found Hsu broke conflict-of-interest rules and fined her NT$100,000.
• Her son joined last year's youth "ecology camp" on Dongsha Island, which opposition parties say happened only because Hsu loosened the sign-up rules.
• Hsu admits a lapse in judgment but says her son qualified as a dual-national overseas student and that she never bent the rules just for him.
• The DPP's ethics committee meets the evening of September 23 and is expected to take up the case, though whether it opens a formal probe or calls her in is still undecided.
• The same meeting may also rule on DPP lawmaker Lin Yi-chin, who got a seven-year first-instance sentence in an assistant-pay case.

Outlook: The committee's decision on whether to open a formal case will show how hard the DPP is willing to police its own officials ahead of the political fallout from the opposition.