Singapore’s Jobless may rise

SINGAPORE’S unemployment will stay up for some time, even as the economy has decisively emerged from its worst recession and started to grow again.
Sounding a note of caution, Prime Minister Lee said in the short term, the jobless rate may well rise above the second quarter’s 3.3 per cent.
‘This is because unemployment numbers tend [...]

Q4 jobless rate at 2.6%

SINGAPORE’S job growth has slowed significantly, with the manufacturing sector bleeding jobs for the first time since 2003.
Preliminary estimates released on Friday morning by the Manpower Ministry showed 26,900 jobs in all added from October to December last year, half of the gains of 55,700 in the previous quarter.
The whole of last year saw 227,200 [...]