SHAH ALAM, April 24 — An unemployed man was sentenced to six years’ jail and three strokes of whipping by the Sessions Court here today after he pleaded guilty to seriously injuring a woman and her son by using a parang.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 9 — The number of unemployed persons in December dipped to 567,800 individuals (November 569,000 unemployed) with an unemployment rate of 3.3 per cent, according to the latest Labour Force statistics from the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 — The unemployment rate in Malaysia dipped to 3.5 per cent in February 2023, with 591.9 thousand unemployed persons compared to 596,100 recorded in January, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

PUTRAJAYA, March 9 — The number of unemployed persons in Malaysia continued to decrease in January this year with a reduction of 0.6 per cent to 596,100 persons compared to 599,600 persons in December 2022, according to the Statistics of Labour Force Malaysia.

JASIN, Feb 1 — An unemployed man was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with the murder of a senior citizen.

SHAH ALAM, Oct 5 — An unemployed man has claimed trial at the Sessions Court for causing grievous hurt to a policeman at a residence in Jalan Siswi, Kampung Sungai Kandis, Seksyen 36, here, last month.

SHAH ALAM, Aug 26 — An unemployed man who is charged with the murder of an 85-year-old woman after he raped and sodomised her was given the death sentence by the High Court here today.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 — An unemployed man was sentenced to five years in jail by the Sessions Court here today for possession of two machetes in a public area without a permit last year.

KUALA SELANGOR, Jan 24 — A jobless man was charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with murdering his mother nine days ago.

KUCHING, Sept 25 — Fresh graduates and unemployed individuals are invited to join a fully funded Internet of Things (IoT) - Cybersecurity programme at Sarawak Skills Development Centre (Sarawak Skills), a state government technical skill development centre here.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, job losses in the country has increased by 42 per cent year-on-year for this first quarter (Q1 2020), according to the Social Security Organisation’s (Socso) Employment Insurance System (EIS).

TOKYO, June 3 — Over 16,700 people, working primarily in the hospitality industry, were laid off in Japan due to the coronavirus pandemic, reported Sputnik news agency, citing the country's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 — The Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) has urged Malaysians who have been affected by the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic and are looking for new employment opportunities to register for free online courses on digital and data skills.