{"id":9994,"date":"2021-01-19T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118246\/coronavirus-higher-unemployment-figures-horizon"},"modified":"2021-01-19T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:00:11","slug":"coronavirus-with-higher-unemployment-figures-on-the-horizon-hong-kong-businesses-are-bracing-for-a-gloomy-start-to-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/coronavirus-with-higher-unemployment-figures-on-the-horizon-hong-kong-businesses-are-bracing-for-a-gloomy-start-to-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: with higher unemployment figures on the horizon, Hong Kong businesses are bracing for a gloomy start to 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"Unemployment in Hong Kong is poised to hit new highs amid the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, with various industry leaders predicting a gloomier economic outlook for the year and the city\u2019s catering sector bracing for its jobless rate to reach as high as 18 per cent.Monday\u2019s bleak forecasts came a day after Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po warned that the unemployment rate between October and December last year would surpass the current 16-year-high of 6.4 per cent \u2013 representing\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118246\/coronavirus-higher-unemployment-figures-horizon\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unemployment in Hong Kong is poised to hit new highs amid the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic, with various industry leaders predicting a gloomier economic outlook for the year and the city\u2019s catering sector bracing for its jobless rate to reach as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10099,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994\/revisions\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}