TAIPEI: Taiwan’s voters, angry at low salaries and unaffordable housing, are set to elect a new president -- but the island’s flagging fortunes and a slowdown in China mean the winner will have a mountain to climb.

Tsai Ing-wen of the main opposition Beijing-sceptic Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is expected to win the presidential vote, polling well ahead of rival candidate Eric Chu from the embattled ruling Kuomintang (KMT).

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