{"id":134000,"date":"2025-10-20T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/134000\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:49:13","slug":"hong-kongs-july-september-unemployment-rises-to-3-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/134000\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong&#8217;s July-September unemployment rises to 3.9%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HONG KONG :Hong Kong&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 3.9 per cent in July to September, from 3.7 per cent in the previous three-month period, with more distinct rises in the social work and construction sectors, the government said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The employment situation in some sectors would continue to face challenges during economic restructuring. The increasing external uncertainties could also weigh on corporate hiring sentiment,&#8221; said Chris Sun, the Secretary for Labour and Welfare, adding Hong Kong&#8217;s economic expansion is expected to support job growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG :Hong Kong&#8217;s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 3.9 per cent in July to September, from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[79,18,19,17,227],"class_list":{"0":"post-134000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jobs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}