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Hong Kong unemployment is expected to continue falling but the city is not yet out of the woods and wider Covid-19 vaccination uptake is needed to improve the economic outlook, the finance chief has said.
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday that jobless figures for April to June, to be announced on Tuesday, were set to return to the levels of more than a year ago, after dropping from a 7.2 per cent high at the beginning of 2021 to 6 per cent in May.
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Ben Kwok July 14, 2021 11:20
Someone should send Chief Executive Carrie Lam some flowers.
Well, her popularity has bounced back to reach a two-year high. The Hong Kong Public Opinion Program concluded in its latest survey that her popularity rating registered a significant increase of 4.2 marks to 34, the highest score since June 2019 when the anti-fugitive law drew two million people to the street.
So no more sleepless night at the Government House? Unfortunately, that is only part of the story. Still some thirty-seven per cent of respondents gave her zero mark.
As such, Lam had a net approval rate of negative 47 percentage points, having subtracted a disapproval rate of 67 per cent from a 20 per cent approval rate.
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