The unemployment rate in Singapore has fallen to 1.8 per cent in the third quarter of the year, 0.3 percentage points lower than that of the previous three months. This is the lowest so far in 2013 -- the last time the country's unemployment rate hit 1.8 per cent was in December last year.
Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin said the latest employment figures released by the Ministry of Manpower are encouraging, but economic restructuring towards more productivity-led growth has to continue.