The fall in March industrial output had been expected by economists due to the high base a year earlier but the month-on-month gain defied forecasts of a contraction.
Singapore's electronics output shrank 15.9 percent from a year earlier due to lower output across the broad with the exception to data storage, which has been running at higher production rates after supply chain disruptions in Thailand.
Output from the biomedical cluster fell 3.3 percent, partly due to a 6.3 percent contraction in pharmaceuticals. Full story
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