Hong Kong’s jobless rate edged up by 0.2 percentage points in the three months ending July while total employment increased.<\/p>\n
Data released by the Census and Statistics Department on Tuesday showed that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 3.7 percent, compared with 3.5 percent in the April-to-June period… Hong Kong’s jobless rate edged up by 0.2 percentage points in the three months ending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs.jpg",618,464,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs.jpg",618,464,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs.jpg",618,464,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs.jpg",618,464,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs.jpg",618,464,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs.jpg",618,464,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs.jpg",618,464,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/170676-jobless-rate-edges-up-as-total-employment-climbs-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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