For Taiwan, subsidized retirement accounts a heavy burden

Taiwan's government has to spend NT$80 billion (US$2.47 billion) a year to subsidize preferential interest rates paid on the retirement accounts of some public employees, and reforms are needed, an official said Monday.

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