SINGAPORE, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) announced on Thursday that the country's manufacturing output grew 16.3 percent year on year in July, compared to the revised 28 percent increase in the previous month.

Excluding biomedical manufacturing, the output grew 5.8 percent year on year this July, compared to the 25.1 percent growth in June.

On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, Singapore's manufacturing output decreased 2.6 percent in July. Excluding biomedical manufacturing, output fell 7.9 percent.

As for the performance of different clusters, the electronics cluster's output expanded 1.5 percent year on year in July, while the biomedical manufacturing cluster saw its output jump 86.6 percent, the chemicals cluster's output declined 5.6 percent, the precision engineering cluster's output grew 20.3 percent, the transport engineering cluster's output increased 33.1 percent, and the general manufacturing cluster's output rose 11 percent. Enditem

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