We are truly puzzled and baffled by the recent action of our ombudsmen.

Sean Chen, chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), surprised almost everybody in Taipei on Monday by calling a press conference a quarter of an hour after he had signed a long-heralded memorandum of understanding (MOU) with his Chinese counterpart Liu Mingkang.

One thing President Ma Ying-jeou, who doubles as chairman of the KMT, wants most is party reform. It has to get rid of its popularly held image as a party where only money talks.

The big story from last week was the tale of another politician found in a compromising situation with a woman who was not his wife.

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) last week announced it would research ways to balance market supply and demand for taxicab service.

For several months, both sides of the Taiwan Strait have been working out details of a pact providing for bilateral cooperation on matters of financial supervision.

The rise of China has been the story of the first decade of the 21st century. Sixty years after its founding, three decades after Deng Xiaoping's open policy and twenty summers after the Tiananmen Crackdown, the communist country is on its way to be the only superpower other than the U.S.

The Super Basketball League (SBL), Taiwan's professional basketball league, is going to be less super this Sunday.

One good decision President Ma Ying-jeou is reported to have made is not to settle the Lafayette kickback scandal out of court.

Two sympathetic magistrate court judges have finally forced the Council of Grand Justices to declare the punishment meted out to unlicensed prostitutes unconstitutional.