Negeri Sembilan’s unemployment rate rose to 3.6 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to 3.3 percent recorded in the first quarter, following the Covid-19 pandemic, the Negeri Sembilan state assembly was told today.

State Human Resources, Plantation, and Non-Muslim Affairs Action Committee chairperson J Arul Kumar said this brought the total number of unemployed individuals in the state to 35,000...