Singapore Economic Development Board announced on Monday that the country's manufacturing output grew 17.9 percent year on year in the first month of 2018, compared to a 3.9 per cent decline last December, reports Xinhua.

Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output grew 21.6 per cent year on year in January.

Meanwhile, on a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, Singapore's manufacturing output increased 6.7 percent in January 2018. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output grew 4.5 per cent.

In a breakdown and on a year-on-year basis, the electronics cluster's output increased 32.4 per cent in January, the biomedical manufacturing cluster's output rose 2.5 per cent, the precision engineering cluster's output grew 24.5 per cent, the transport engineering cluster's output hiked 1.4 per cent, the chem