Singapore - Singapore's manufacturing output in September grew 2.4 per cent compared with the same month last year, the Economic Development Board said Friday.

However, the cumulative manufacturing output for the first nine months of the year shrank 1.9 per cent compared with the same period of last year, in view of slackening global demand.

The three-month moving average year-on-year manufacturing output index also contracted 11.4 per cent, said the city state's trade promotion agency. (dpa)