Along with Taiwan, South Korea and other export-reliant economies, Singapore is benefiting from a pick-up in global trade, including high-tech products such as smartphones. Even with some slowdown in China, the growth in the technology sector is set to continue, supporting manufacturing, said Weiwen Ng, an economist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group.

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