Manufacturing staff up

The manufacturing sector experienced a slight rebound in the last two quarters, official data shows. The manufacturing industry hired 119 people in the October-March period, taking its total staff to 11,193. It was the first time since early 2006 – when the sector had 31,850 workers – that the number of manufacturing employees increased. In the past seven years the sector lost almost 20,800 jobs. Manufacturing used to be the dominant industry in Macau, but the end of the World Trade Organisation quota system in 2005 doomed it, particularly the textile and clothing sector.