Topics
One issue per topic: the numbers, how they changed, and tools to work out your own case.
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Taiwan Housing 2026: Prices, Mortgages and Policy
Taiwan's price-to-income ratio was 9.47 in 2026 Q1. Eighty years of housing policy, the Qing-An loan, and four calculators, all sourced.
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Health and Long-Term Care
How Taiwan's National Health Insurance and long-term care work: system, history, finances, ageing, pressure points and positions, with subsidy and premium calculators.
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Industries and listed companies
Exports, GDP, science parks, factories by county and twenty years of market-cap rankings: Taiwan’s industrial structure in official statistics, plus six public debates in each side’s own words.
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Pay, tax and retirement
Where a Taiwanese paycheck goes: the wage distribution, income tax, Labor Insurance and Labor Pension, and the pension-reform debate, with four calculators.
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Taiwanese Names
Surnames, the given names that mark each generation, four official spellings, and Indigenous names, with a name romanization tool.