Service, manufacturing firms may need foreign labour stance to ease amid economic uncertainty

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SINGAPORE - A global index that ranked Singapore as the world's most competitive economy also highlighted the difficulties bosses face when trying to hire foreign labour.

The Republic scored only 47.6 and a ranking of 93 out of 141 economies on the ease of employing staff from overseas.

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