Sabah tops unemployment rate nationwide


KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has the highest number of unemployed people in the country, says Human Resources Minister V Sivakumar.

He said some 29% or 169,800 people were jobless in the state, out of the total 588,700 unemployed nationwide.

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