Apple Daily: Taiwan a hell for foreign workers Five Vietnamese caregivers complained at a news conference that they were exploited and ill-treated by their bosses at a nursing home for the elderly where they were employed. They said they were forced to work overtime, were paid only a fraction of what they were promised and were locked in room.

This nursing home has really tarnished Taiwan's image as a country that puts a premium on human rights.

How can a nursing home that is cruel to its foreign workers be kind to the senior citizens in its care? It is a shame that this has happened in Taiwan.

Liberty Times: We do not understand what Chairman Ma is talking about Kuomintang Chairman Ma Ying-jeou told Reuters that Taiwan is ready to conclude a trade pact with China in hopes of diversifying Taiwan's export market so that it not focused entirely on Europe or the United States.

We really do not understand why Ma would make such remarks.

Doesn't he know that China already absorbs 40 percent of Taiwan's exports.

Ma also said that he hopes Taiwan could treat China as a market for its products rather than a factory that manufactures its products for re-export. But is this something Taiwan can do unilaterally? Based on his remarks, Ma must either be lying or is an idiot. United Daily News: Moving forward with cross-strait ties It is now a well-established view that the disputes between Taiwan and China should be settled by peaceful means.

China has moved from denying the existence of the Republic of China to acknowledging its de-facto identity.

Now both sides should consider the next step, which is acknowledgement of the fact that there is only one China.

However, this one China should be neither the Republic of China nor the People's Republic of China, but something such as a confederate.

Political pundits may dismiss this idea as absurd but they should consider the next step because cross-strait relations cannot remain static forever.

China Times: How can judiciary which cannot right its own wrongs right others' wrongs? After an investigation, the Control Yuan has asked the Judicial Yuan to discipline Kinmen District Court president Chao Wen-yuan for sexually harassing female judges.

The Anti-corruption Office of the Judicial Yuan admitted afterward that it had looked into the case last year but found no evidence to support the complaints.

What a pity. The Control Yuan determined the complaints were true while the Judicial Yuan found a lack of evidence.

It seems that the judicial system adheres to the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty only when it probes its own people, motivated by a desire to keep skeletons in the closet.

But how can the justice system maintain its credibility and address the grievances of the people if it cannot address the grievances of its own workers.

(By Maubo Chang)