SINGAPORE, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) said on Friday that the country's manufacturing output decreased 0.8 percent year on year in October, compared to the revised 1.6 percent increase in September.
Excluding biomedical manufacturing, the output increased 1.9 percent year on year in October, compared to the 2.4 percent increase in September.
On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, Singapore's manufacturing output increased 0.9 percent in October. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output remained unchanged.
As for the performance of different clusters, the electronics cluster's output declined 0.7 percent year on year in October. Meanwhile, the chemicals cluster saw its output decrease 9.7 percent. The biomedical manufacturing cluster's output declined 14.5 percent.
The precision engineering cluster's output grew 18.6 percent in October. The transport engineering cluster's output increased 6.3 percent. The general manufacturing cluster's output remained unchanged year on year in October. ■