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Clobbered by Covid-19, Thailand's jobless rate hits record
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Tue, May 18, 2021 · 09:50 PM
Bangkok
THAILAND'S official unemployment rate hit a new peak in the first quarter of this year, reaching 2 per cent of the labour force.
Analysts say this level is deemed high in a country where unemployment had remained below the 1 per cent mark for more than a decade until the Covid-19 pandemic struck.
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