MACAU MAR-MAY UNEMPLOYMENT 3.5% VS FEB-APR 3.8% - XINHUA wsj.com

The March-May period Macau unemployment was 3.5%, down 0.3% from the February-April period, according to Macau's Statistics and Census Service, Xinhua News Agency reported Monday.

Unemployment for the March-May period was 0.6% higher than for the same period in 2008, according to the report citing the Statistics Bureau.  All sectors, except for local manufacturing and transport storage and communications, saw improvement in the unemployment situation, according to Xinhua.

CASINO WORKER, PRIMARY STUDENT FOUND WITH H1N1 macaudailytimesnews.com

The Health Bureau reported two more imported cases of Influenza A (H1N1).  The first case was that of a twenty-six- year-old Macau resident who recently returned from Guangzhou, the second was a nine-year-old girl and Macau resident who lived in Hong Kong. 

The number of confirmed cases in Macau has now risen to twenty.