{"id":386195,"date":"2026-03-15T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386195\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T10:11:11","slug":"taiwans-red-hot-tech-economy-leaves-young-workers-old-industries-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386195\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan&#8217;s red-hot tech economy leaves young workers, old industries cold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">As local elections loom, President Lai under pressure to address imbalances<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260313 kaosiung landscape\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A view of Taiwan&#8217;s southern city of Kaohsiung, including a\u00a0TSMC chip fabrication plant, in June 2025. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan &#8212; When Wang Ting-yu browses job search websites in Taiwan, she does not like what she sees. &#8220;The salaries listed are all around 30,000 New Taiwan dollars,&#8221; or about $950 a month, she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s actually quite low.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy As local elections loom, President Lai under pressure to address imbalances A view of Taiwan&#8217;s southern city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,25209,179,18,19,11995,17,99556,2603,176707,110412,753,2795,16404],"class_list":["post-386195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cold","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-industries","tag-ireland","tag-leaves","tag-old","tag-red-hot","tag-taiwans","tag-tech","tag-workers","tag-young"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116232656418903710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}