★
<The
United Daily>, 8-26-2019: <名人堂> 楊志良: "The gap between the poor and
the rich became largest ever !"
★
★
<中國時報
The China
Times>, editorial opinion, 10-4-2019: The productivity of those consumer goods (lifestyle)
industries (such as general business, wholesales, retail, food,
logistics/distribution, cosmetology & hair salon, early childhood care, hotel,
etc industries with low salary and dark future ) most Taiwanese people
work on is pretty low in general； in contrast, the new rich in
Computer and electronics industries lead a great life，this leads to
an unstable society。
★
★
<The
United Daily>, <CTS> news, 2-20-2019
★
pic.: Taiwanese workers stuck at the same real salaries (wages) as
17 years ago for inflation of all prices/ UDN 2-20-2019
PS: CTS news 2-20-2019: Nearly 90% Taiwanese
workers complained about their low salaries.
★
★
<自由時報
The
Liberty Times>, summer 2019
young
worker with low pay , yearly growth NT400-600 (2018: aged 20-24 , NT27783, 2017:
NT26904, 2012: 23737)
★
<The
United Daily>, headline news, 6-10-2019
The number of elderly citizens being abused is 300% larger than that 10
years ago, a horrible find-out ! The number is just a tip of a big
iceberg ! Most of those aged people suffering domestic violence
chose not to speak out ...
★
《United
Daily 》Taiwan,
8-26-2019, headline news
"can't
afford buying a house,
salary remains, no solutions yet since 1989"
★
<聯合報
The
United Daily>, 10-25-2019: Kaohsiung city mayor (韓國瑜): People of four
classes (farmers, fishermen, plebs, labor-men) lead a good life, the whole
Taiwan will be happy (四種人 農、漁、勞工、庶民過好
全台快樂)
★
UDN group's
Economic Daily (經濟日報)
survey of 2019 shows at 11-20-2019 that <Happiness Index> of Taiwanese
― No.1
Taipei, No.2 Hsin-Chu, No.3 Tao-yuan, No.4 TaiNan.
★
★
<The
New York Times>, 2-27-2018
★
Taiwanese are "in a near panic" over shortage of tissue paper,
which highlights high price sensitivity, Taiwanese
wages stagnated for years, but housing prices went up. (brief)
◎
★《The
Economist Intelligence Unit》, UK
Taipei ranks No. 58 in the 2018 survey "The world's most livable cities".
"The 2017 global least and most stressful
cities rankings" shows Taiwan's "gender equality" No.113, "race equality" No.
78, "green space" No. 115, "social security" No.140, "physical health"
No.15, "mental health" No. 96, "air pollution" No. 92, "noise pollution" No.110,
"Density", No. 127, "public transport" No.2, "Debt per Capita" No. 43,
etc. ref to
https://www.zipjet.co.uk/2017-stressful-cities-ranking,《聯合報》, 10-3-2018
◎
★
<The
United Daily>, 2-8/9-2018,
<Apple
Daily>, 2-9-2018
Taiwan government (including local gov.)
has not well taken
its fundamental responsibility of protecting the safety of people's life and property
-
●
why are there so
many tall buildings located on the fault-zone?
●
why are poor
architectures everywhere on bad geologic grounds ?
●
why are those
shit-hole politicians doing nothing and ignoring urban renewal so as to
risk millions of old houses and human beings ??
ADN
opinion
: "
How come can Taiwan
be a country of happiness ?" (台灣怎麼會是快樂國度?),
"but that
<World
Happiness Report>
is only half-blind, because of its 6
key variables to support
well-being: income, healthy life expectancy, social
support, freedom, trust and generosity."
World Happiness Report
: Taiwan ranks No. 26 country of happiness, No. 38
immigration country...
◎
★
<The
China Times>, 4-7-2017
39.5% Taiwanese people felt blue (Melancholy)1-2 days per week,
39.2 1- days, 21.3% felt blue 3-7 days per week ; Only16.8%
won't hide their disease / 董氏基金會研究.
◎
★ 《Apple
Daily》Taiwan,
4-18-2017 headline news
It's the hardest time in Taiwan's history to buy a house... 40% monthly salary
for loan/mortgage.
◎
★《TheLiberty
Times》Taiwan, 2-24-2017
Keep
eating nothing and drinking nothing for 33+ years to buy a new house in Taipei ! Taipei's Ratio of House
Price to Income is 33.3 times, New Taipei city is
20.25.
◎◎
★
tv.ifeng凤凰视频
◎
★
<United Daily news
聯合報>,《The
Liberty
Times》Taiwan,
2-25-2017
Taiwanese
employee's real wages (average monthly) of last year is lower than that of 16
years ago. The average number of the real wages of about 70%
employee is less than NT40000, 36.72% is less than NT30000. The youth's
low salary is a serious problem, jobless rate is still high.
◎
★
★
<United Daily news聯合報>,
head page, 12-10-2016
The word
of 2016 selected is "苦"
("hardship", "pain"). ps:
The word of 2008 till now respectively is : 2008「亂」(mess)、2009「盼」(long
for)、2010「淡」(thin; pale)、2011「讚」(good)、2012「憂」(worry)、2013「假」(fake)、2014「黑」(black)
and 2015「換」(change). http://udn.com/news/story/1/2158738
★
★
<CTS
HD>,
5-23-2016 1:25pm,
"華視新聞雜誌"
17 million
Taiwanese people ( totally 23 million population) live in "potential danger"
(潛在危險) houses,
according to
<遠見>study,
Taiwanese people gave a "failure" score (53.5) on "living safety".
★
★
<the
Liberty Times自由時報>,
5-4-2016
"Misery!
the starting monthly salary (NT27,655,
about USD900)
of college students is lower than that
(NT28,016 about USD900+)
of 16 years ago",
according to governmental statistics.
★
★
<the
Liberty Times自由時報>,
5-4-2016
A survey found Taiwanese mother's "happiness index" is "D" score (68)
for economic burden, supports from partner and relatives are not enough, etc.
★
★
<United Daily news 聯合報>, 3-28-2016 Government
becomes the
exploiter!
UDN poll found 89% Taiwanese agree the
gap/disparity between rich and poor is serious, only 7% disagree. 63%
Taiwanese agree social injustice/inequality. The youth are confused where
the opportunity is, the labor groups scream social injustice is from bad to
worse...
◎
★
<United Daily news>, 4-28-2016
J.P. Morgan survey found Taiwanese " Happiness Index after retirement" is an
almost "Failure" score.
◎
★
CTV , 3-14-2016 21:29, China Times, 4-28-2015
One Taiwanese got Karoshi (died from overwork) per 10 days in
average.
Taiwan is an island of slave workers - Taiwanese salary low, long working hours
ranks world No. 3, estimate Taiwanese work 3 months more than Germany per
year...
★
★
<Lloyd's >, 9-17-2015
Lloyd's
City Risk Index 2015-2025 analyses the potential impact on the economic output
(GDP risk) of 301 of the world's major cities, Taipei was ranked world No.1 -
within the next 10 years, Taipei is estimated to loss 45% of GDP, about USD18120
billion, 44.78% of them is for typhoons, 16.38% earthquakes, 15.77%
(global) financial markets are volatile .
◎
★
<the Liberty Times>, 8-4-2015
Keep
eating and drinking nothing for 16+ years to buy a house in Taipei !
5 major cities' (Taipei, New
Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiiung ) the Ratio of House
Price to Income and house load
affordability rate (房貸負擔率)
all reach new high since Taiwan's first-time survey being conducted in 2002.
Besides, Taiwanese payroll (compensation level薪資) retreated, so it's even harder
(higher misery index) for citizens to buy a house.
Ratio of House Price to Income (times) and house load affordability
rate (%)
of major cities in Qtr.1, 2015 : Taipei 16.16, 68.63, New Taipei City 12.78,
55.27, Taoyuan 7.17, 30.44, TaiChung 8.53,36.22 ,TaiNan 6.69, 28.42, Kaohsiung 7.88,
33.46, all these are higher than the number published in 5-12-2015.
In UBS's
"most expensive cities" report, Taipei was ranked No. 26. - but No. 42 in
the report of last time.
◎
★
<the Liberty Times自由時報>, 8-5-2015
According to latest survey, Taiwanese
fathers work so hard that 76% of them prefer escaping from working field back
home for a rest. Some other findings include, in average 2.4 days for
overtime-working per week, 43% of
them don't have any pocket money to spend,
each week only 2.9 days they can
have dinner together with their children.
◎
★
The China Times,
10-12-2015
Taipei's High house price led to extremely low (超低) fertility rate in Taiwan.
◎
★
The China Times, 9-21-2015
Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.
published rankings of OECD (2015), Taiwan's environmental quality was ranked
No.35 within 37 countries, Taiwan's air pollution index,
particulate matter
- PM10 being up to 41 ug/m3, already was ranked No. 36 for consecutively 2 years.
Besides, a drinking water survey conducted by Taiwan's government last year
found
57.2％ of Taiwanese complained their water smelling stinky, or/and like liquid-medicine,
54.1％ complained water containing precipitate,
impurity and something else,
29.1％
complained bad taste, 22.3% complained their water with color or turbidity, 5.6％
don't even trust water quality.
◎
★
United Daily News, 12-9-2015 headline
GermanWatch global climate change performance index published a
comparison of the 58 top CO2 emitting nations, Taiwan was ranked 52th among 58
in the list.
◎
★
Taipei Times, 3-20-2015
Fulbright
foreign academic : Taiwanese are depressed ...
At the Fulbright Association's 37th
Annual Conference in Taipei, a foreign academic asked Taiwan president Ma's
opinion on what was causing the men (Chinese "悶" means "depressed" and
"unhappy", the academic said it "a feeling of
stagnation, or having no way
forward") which many Taiwanese said they were feeling. Ma's remarks
( he did not know of "such a widespread phenomenon”and so on) provoked
criticism: Taiwanese government policies continue to favor large corporations,
while workers' wages have regressed to the same level as 1999, people have
evidently had enough, which led to last year's mass protests and the storming of
the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. (brief
of report)
◎
★
<the Liberty Times自由時報>, 12-7-2015
Taiwanese government policy, NT22000 monthly salary's Anchoring Effect, resulted
in youth income retreated about 18 years - average salary of youth
aged less than 39 is bit less than that of youth around 1999.
◎
★
Liberty Times, 3-23-2015
Who depressed Taiwanese?
(台灣的悶是誰造成的？)
Taiwan's
economy dependency (policy inclination) on communist China,
domestic industrial
inanition/ hollowing-out, salary going back, losing
working opportunity, commodity prices having gone up
(inflation of prices), huge state
government debt, people can not afford buying house, can
not afford having marriage and children, young
generation becoming poor people, disparity between rich and poor became larger
... http://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/865349
(brief)
◎
★
United Daily News, 3-21-2015
We're all really
depressed and unhappy !
(誰很悶？我們真的都很悶
! )
(1) Can't afford housing by our
salary (2) Lousy administrative efficiency
and legislative efficiency (3) Lousy quality of entertainment (4)
Unclear nation's positioning (5) Politicians of both sides dish the dirt about
each other (6) Bad prosecutors and judiciary system, too many vultures and
not-real-world judges/bad prosecutors ... (7) Food scandals
by
Chang 張瑞雄／台北商業大學校長 http://udn.com/news/story/7339/779404-%E8%AA%B0%E5%BE%88%E6%82%B6%EF%BC%9F%E6%88%91%E5%80%91%E7%9C%9F%E7%9A%84%E9%83%BD%E5%BE%88%E6%82%B6 (brief
)
◎
★
United Daily News, 4-25-2015 Eat &
drink nothing, See & hear no evil, Taiwanese feel happy this way?
(不吃不喝、不看不聽 台灣人這樣快樂？)
an editorial critique questioning & responding to TW's ranking no. 38 in UN survey
on happiness
/ critic 孫亦文
... Only if you had nothing
breakfast containing animal drugs more than maximal residue allowed or virus/germs (Escherichia
coli), tea drink with over-limited-of-detection pesticide, mineral water made by
(under)ground-water,
Illegal import of banned (suspiciously polluted) food products from Japan...
moreover, if you don't care politics, don't watch TV news ... most important of all,
if you
win a lottery, that will be the happiest thing ! Who said Taiwanese are unhappy?
details pls. ref. to http://udn.com/news/story/7339/861333-%E4%B8%8D%E5%90%83%E4%B8%8D%E5%96%9D%E3%80%81%E4%B8%8D%E7%9C%8B%E4%B8%8D%E8%81%BD-%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E4%BA%BA%E9%80%99%E6%A8%A3%E5%BF%AB%E6%A8%82%EF%BC%9F
◎
★ Liberty Times,
4-1-2015
According to a
survey conducted by John Tung Foundation
(董氏基金會),
every 1 out of 4 or 5 university students
are obviously
depressed
(PS: melancholia).
◎
★
United Daily News, June 5, 2014
(Living edition A6)
1/3 Taiwanese feel
unhappy according
to a local survey. (MD suggests having Vitamin C,
fruits/vegetables to help emotional stability) (brief
)
◎
★
CTV(<中視>),
4-3-2015 evening news, 19:22pm
A survey concerning Happiness found that 30%
Taiwanese children only have less than 3 days per
week to eating together with their parents, nearly 25% children are
not satisfied at
current situation...
("不滿現狀").
◎
★
United Daily News, 5-22-2015
According to a
survey conducted by John Tung Foundation
(董氏基金會),
about every 1 out of 2 Taiwanese women is
physically unhappy (身體不快樂)
...
◎
★
The China Times, 8-3-2014
Taiwan's Happiness Index Top,
Taiwanese said "No Way !"
According to Taiwanese Happiness Index published by Taiwan's government,
Taiwan ranked the 18th in 37 countries joining the poll.
This
report provoked Taiwanese people criticisms: "Is it possible
? happiness? No way !" (「怎麼可能幸福？」),
"Totally phony survey" (根本是「編來被罵的」). http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20140830000346-260102
(brief
)
◎
★
Apple Daily
, 9-4-2014「台灣女性性生活滿意度調查」),
about 80% unmarried female are not satisfied about their sexual life, nearly 40%
Taiwanese women are not satisfied their sexual life.
◎
★
CNA
Central News Agency, Taiwan(<中央社>)
，
March
8, 2012
For this national Women's Day,
DPP legislative members in a press conference
listed Taiwan's 5 problems leading to Taiwanese women's unhappiness
― reduced
income, food (birds-flu chickens, Paylean beef, etc) may get illness,
unequal pay for female ( salary 17.6%
less
for same work by the male), workplace not
comfortable
( female victims accounted for 97.15% of all sexual
harassment cases ) , difficult to get promotion ( women only 1/4
of high-end civil
servants/officials ).
◎
★
Satisfaction with
Life Index
Satisfaction Index
- International ranking 2006 : Taiwan
No.68;
Singapore No. 53,
Hong Kong No. 63, China No. 82; top 3 nations are Denmark, Swiss, Austria,
The US No. 23.
The Satisfaction with Life
Index was created by Adrian G. White, an analytic social
psychologist at the University of Leicester, using data from a
metastudy. It is an attempt to show life satisfaction in different
nations.
In this
calculation, subjective well being correlates most strongly with
health (.7), wealth (.6), and access to basic education
This is an example of directly
measuring happiness—asking people how happy they are—as an
alternative to traditional measures of policy success such as GDP or
GNP. Some studies suggest that happiness can be measured
effectively.
This Index, however, is not
solely based on directly asking "how people feel", but also on its
social and economic development
◎
★
Happy Planet Index (HPI) ― New Economics Foundation (NEF)
Taiwan ranks
world No. 84, score 43.41 , China ranks No. 31, score 55.99 in 2006
The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an
index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by the
New Economics Foundation (NEF) in July 2006. The index is weighted to give
progressively higher scores to nations with lower ecological footprints.
◎
★
The World Happiness Report
―
the United Nations
In 2013, Taiwan ranks the 42th (score 6.221), South Korea ranks 41th
(6.267), Singapore 30th (6.546), US 17th (7.082);
Denmark, Norway, Swiss,
Holland, Sweden are top 5, China is not included in the list.
The World Happiness
Report is a measure of happiness published by the United Nations Sustainable
Development Solutions Network. The report is edited by Professor John F.
Helliwell, of the University of British Columbia and the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research; Lord Richard Layard, Director of the Well-Being Programme at
LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance; and
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University,
Director of the SDSN, and Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General...
◎
★
Apple Daily (<蘋果日報>)
,
11-29-2012
"Taiwan is not happy !" (Politics edition,
by
余艾苔)
All index
scores of Taiwanese happiness fell, according to the 4th QTR survey conducted by
<遠見>,
in
that paper,
most Taiwanese people are not happy, and pessimistic about our society...
◎
★
China
Post, 4-6-2012
According to the
World Happiness Report conducted by the Earth Institute (EI) of Columbia
University, entrusted by the United Nations General Assembly,
Taiwan ranks 46th happiest country in the world.
EI revealed that happiness could not simply be achieved by
acquiring monetary wealth. Instead, at a national level, happiness — or
well-being (幸福) — is built on an array of factors, including political freedom,
strong social networks and an absence of corruption. On the
individual level, having strong mental and physical health, trustworthy
relationships, job security, and stable families are all crucial factors that
contribute to personal happiness.
★
2011
DPP opinion polls <the
Liberty Times>,
Taiwan, May 8, 2011
( Mother's
Day )
◎ 54.9%
female (age 20-49) : Taiwanese mother are
not happy.
◎ details
(1)
Taiwanese mother "kind (bit)
unhappy" : 34.5%
(2) "very unhappy": 20.4%
(3) "kind (bit) happy" :
33.9%
(4) "very happy" : 7.4%
(5) Not willing to have
baby at present : 87.3%
― reasons include having enough kid(s), economic burden,
not married yet, cannot have baby for age or health etc,
not willing to give birth, living environment not good ...(brief
)
◎
★
ECA int'l "the best place to reside"
―
Not Taipei ranked behind !
According to 2009 ECA International "the best place to reside", Taipei
ranked world No. 57, Singapore
ranked world No.1 , Asia's No.
2 and 3, Hong Kong, Tokyo, both ranked world No. 15.
Taipei ranked No.55 in 2010, Singapore still ranked world No. 1.
◎
◎
★
Taipei Times, 8-31-2013
Index shows Taiwanese are moderately happy
People in Taiwan enjoy a “moderate
level” of happiness compared with their peers in nations in the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to the national happiness
index released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS)
. The
results also showed Taiwan's material living conditions are better than its
quality of life.
◎
★
Apple Daily News, editorial ,
Sept. 23, 2011
"National
Sexual Prison "(「國立性煉獄」)
: What a shame on Taiwanese government !
So
many sexual harassment crimes , and sexual assault cases in
Taiwan,
...... far more than
the number reported by media,
we can say
Taiwan has already became a society
hostile to the female. Shame on all Taiwanese,
particularly, shame on Taiwanese government......(brief
)
◎
★ 2011
USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, April 8, 2011
Violence against women, including rape and domestic
violence, remained a serious
problem.
(estimated that
the total number of rape, spousal rape was 10 times the number
reported to the police,
◎
★
USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices,
2.27.2014
Rape and Domestic Violence: The law
criminalizes rape, including spousal rape, and domestic violence. Because
victims were socially stigmatized, many did not report the crime, and the
Ministry of Interior estimated that the total number of sexual
assaults was 10 times the number reported to
police.
★ French
Reporters Sans Frontieres and US. Freedom
House, 2014
Paris-based <Reporters Sans Frontieres>:
Taiwan’s ranking for press freedom fell three notches from last year.
Freedom House: Taiwan's
media freedom declines again
(BBC: declines for consecutive 3 years).
★
Taiwan's poll, 2012 ~2013
According to
2013 survey (Dec. 10, 2013)
conducted by
The
Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD )
& SHU
that shows a
"F"
score (rating 2.7/5.0 points) on
overall human rights status
―
in
decline for a third consecutive year
(judiciary,
fair trials.
non-corruption, communication privacy, health rights... all
fail). According to
2012 survey (Dec. 4, 2012)
by the Taipei-based Chinese Association for Human Rights, 43.4% of
the respondents rated Taiwan's overall
performance in human rights protection this year as either “bad”
or “very bad”
, only 38 percent of
Taiwanese held positive views on Taiwan's
human rights of this year, which is far worse
than 57 percent of last year... <Apple daily News> comments
Taiwan's freedom of speech is in retreat,
and scholars worry about Taiwan's democracy doesn't work well, <Taiwan News>
uses the headline "Taiwan's human rights get
thumbs-down in poll!"...
◎
★
Foreign Policy, 2015
Taiwan Not democratic!
In <Foreign Policy>, Taipei's new mayor Ko
expressed "Does Taiwan have
democracy? Real democracy means
politics belongs to the people. Taiwanese politics belongs to corporations and
is controlled by political parties."
◎
★
Common Wealth Magazine,
6-29-2012 Scholar: It's a "Pass" grade.
Taiwan Happiness Index
65.94 - A Middling Score on Happiness
Closer analysis of the
five main metrics comprising the index shows that Taiwanese feel happiest about
"Family Life," which accounted for 16.65 points of the overall happiness score.
That was followed, in descending order, by "Physical and Mental Health" (16.13
points), "Social Relations" (13.47 points) and "Employment Situation" (12.74
points), with the lowest score being "Political and Economic Climate" (6.95
points).
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