Friday, February 01, 2008

What The?

From today's Straits Times report,

S'pore adds record number of jobs in 2007, a third filled by foreigners

... ... ... ...

The economy added 236,600 jobs, up from 176,000 jobs in the previous year. This is an 11-year high.

Of these, 92,100 jobs went to locals last year, up from 90,900 the previous year.

Okay, do the math; why are there lesser locals getting jobs than the foreigners in the above figure? News reporting error, or regulated content with ambiguous writing?