Singapore, Hong Kong job ads fall on crisis -report

Reuters, 30 Oct 2008, Koh Gui Qing

SINGAPORE, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Job advertisements in Asia's financial centres Singapore and Hong Kong fell in the third quarter as the financial crisis spurred companies to cut costs, recruitment firm Robert Walters said on Thursday.

The number of job advertisements in Singapore fell 10.2 percent to 192,985 in the July-to-September period compared to the second quarter, Robert Walters said. The number of job advertisements in Hong Kong fell 8.5 percent to 433,818 over the same period.

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