KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 — The number of unemployed persons in the country in January has declined to 680,400, bringing the unemployment rate to 4.2 per cent, according to Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Mohd Uzir Mahidin.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 29 — The unemployment in the country rate is anticipated to fall and return to the full employment level at four per cent in 2022.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 — The ringgit remained unchanged against the US dollar at Friday’s opening after Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) move to maintain the overnight policy rate at 1.75 per cent, as well as the Statistics Department’s report on the unemployment rate, which remained at 4.8 per cent in July 2021.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 13 — The country's labour market performance is projected to improve in the second quarter of this year with the unemployment rate estimated at 4.6 per cent compared to 4.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2021 and the fourth quarter of 2020.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — The unemployment rate in Malaysia has climbed to 4.8 per cent in June 2021 involving 768,700 persons, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) reported today in the Statistics of Labour Force, Malaysia, June and second quarter of 2021.

PUTRAJAYA, July 8 — Malaysia's unemployment rate in May 2021 was 4.5 per cent or involving 728,100 persons, according to the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 — The unemployment rate in Malaysia for April 2021 has dropped to 4.6 per cent which was the lowest rate since October 2020, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) reported today on Statistics of Labour Force, Malaysia, April 2021.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — The uneven Malaysia’s labour force situation in 2020 was profoundly caused by the health crisis and economic consequences, leading the unemployment rate to reach 4.5 per cent compared to 3.3 per cent in 2019, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).

PUTRAJAYA, April 8 — Malaysia's unemployment rate has dropped slightly to 4.8 per cent in February 2021 from 4.9 per cent in January, the Statistics of Labour Force in Malaysia for February 2021 shows.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — The ringgit traded lower against the US dollar at Monday’s closing due to lack of positive catalysts for the local note, said an analyst.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 — Malaysia’s unemployment rate rose by 0.1 percentage point month-on-month to 4.7 per cent in October 2020, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 — The Institute of Labour Market Information and Analysis (Ilmia) is optimistic that the job market will be better in the fourth quarter of this year (Q4 2020) in Malaysia based on the improvement in job creation and the stable unemployment rate in Malaysia since Q3 2020.

By Khairul Azran Hussin SHAH ALAM, Nov 16 — Selangor has aimed in reducing the unemployment rate in the state to below 5 per cent this year, says state executive councillor Mohd Khairuddin Othman. The Youth, Sports and Human Resource Development Committee chairman said various programmes will...

MANILA, Sept 3 — The number of Filipinos without jobs reached 4.6 million in July 2020 as the country grapples with the economic fallout of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, reported Xinhua news agency, quoting data from the Philippine government's latest survey on Thursday.

BRUSSELS, Sept 2 — The unemployment rate in the 19-member euro area continued to rise in July, a month marked by some relaxation of Covid-19 containment measures in many members of the European Union (EU), showed the figures released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, on Tuesday.

SINGAPORE, July 29 — Singapore's jobless rate rose sharply in the second quarter to a new decade-high of 2.9 per cent, provisional data showed on Wednesday, as the Covid-19 pandemic saw employment shrink in the services and construction sector.

PUTRAJAYA, July 14 — The unemployment rate in Malaysia rose to 5.3 per cent in May this year, registering 826,100 unemployed persons, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) reported today.