Sep 25, 2026 · 6 min · 9 segments
In this episode: Taiwan Raises Minimum Wage to NTD 30,900 Monthly for 2027; 14-Year-Old Stabs Senior High School Student in Neck in New Taipei; 'Pommel Horse Prince' Lee Chih-kai Falls Short of Third…
Taiwan’s minimum wage review committee approved its eleventh consecutive annual increase on September twenty-fourth after more than seven hours of deliberation.
The monthly minimum wage will rise from twenty-nine thousand five hundred to thirty thousand nine hundred New Taiwan dollars, breaking the thirty thousand mark for the first time.
The hourly rate climbs from one hundred ninety-six to two hundred five New Taiwan dollars, an overall adjustment of four point seven four five percent.
Labor Minister Hong Shen-han said the fourteen hundred New Taiwan dollar monthly increase is the largest in a decade and will benefit about two point six one million workers.
He also pledged support for manufacturers and service businesses squeezed by the Middle East conflict and rising costs.
Taiwan’s minimum wage review committee approved its eleventh consecutive annual increase on September twenty-fourth after more than seven hours of deliberation.
The monthly minimum wage will rise from twenty-nine thousand five hundred to thirty thousand nine hundred New Taiwan dollars, breaking the thirty thousand mark for the first time.
The hourly rate climbs from one hundred ninety-six to two hundred five New Taiwan dollars, an overall adjustment of four point seven four five percent.
Labor Minister Hong Shen-han said the fourteen hundred New Taiwan dollar monthly increase is the largest in a decade and will benefit about two point six one million workers.
He also pledged support for manufacturers and service businesses squeezed by the Middle East conflict and rising costs.
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