Noticed last night that Transparency International just put out their 2008 report, and compared Taiwan's position (#39) to that of last year's (#34).
I'm inclined to give Ma Ying-jeou a pass for this poor showing — there was a lot of unhappiness in Taiwan over allegations of corruption by former President Chen Shui-bian even BEFORE evidence of his possible money-laundering popped up.
But as I said in the last post, the real trick will be to see where Taiwan stands on this index one or two years from now.