This study examines the Monday returns detected in the Taiwan stock market during 01/01/1981-09/30/2005 periods and finds that the results for the post-1996 sub-period are quite different from those for the pre-1996 sub-period. During the post-1996 sub-period, this study finds: (a) Monday returns are significantly negative, (b) Monday returns are not evenly distribute; instead, they are concentrated in the third and the forth weeks of the month, and (c) Monday returns are negatively related to trading activities of institutional investors and individual investors.