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        "msgid": "singapore-jobless-to-exceed-30000-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-12-26 00:00:00",
        "title": "Singapore jobless to exceed 30,000",
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        "source": "AP",
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        "summary": "Singapore jobless to exceed 30,000 SINGAPORE (AP): More than 30,000 Singaporeans will be out of work by the end of the year, exceeding the government's projections, the head of the city-state's largest union was quoted on Friday as saying. \"In the fourth quarter, retrenchment has gone up compared to the previous three months,\" Cyrille Tan, head of the United Workers of Electronic and Electrical Industries, was quoted as telling The Business Times.",
        "content": "<p>Singapore jobless to exceed 30,000<\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE (AP): More than 30,000 Singaporeans will be out of<br>\nwork by the end of the year, exceeding the government's<br>\nprojections, the head of the city-state's largest union was<br>\nquoted on Friday as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\"In the fourth quarter, retrenchment has gone up compared to<br>\nthe previous three months,\" Cyrille Tan, head of the United<br>\nWorkers of Electronic and Electrical Industries, was quoted as<br>\ntelling The Business Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Manpower had projected the year's total<br>\nlayoffs would not exceed 30,000 in the country of 3.1 million<br>\npeople. The unemployment rate for September was 4.5 percent,<br>\nalmost double June's 2.3 percent, according to government<br>\nfigures.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore is in the midst of one of the worst economic<br>\ndownturns in its 33-year history. During the last recession in<br>\n1985 the number of jobless totaled 19,529.<\/p>",
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