Posted on 16 Jan 2012
Singapore economy has started to show signs of a slowdown, particularly in electronic sector, although the citystate will be able to weather the uncertainties ahead, local newspapers reported on Monday, citing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Lee also reiterated the Southeast Asian country is expecting a more conservative annual growth of between 1% and 3%.
His comments came ahead of the country's nonoil domestic export data on Tuesday.
"But in Singapore, we are prepared and we are ready for what is going to come," Lee was quoted by Straits Times newspaper as saying.
Singapore's tradedriven economy contracted in the last quarter of 2011, signalling it might slip into technical recession as a slump in manufacturing output and a slowdown in external demand hurt exports.
For the whole of 2011, the economy expanded by 4.8 percent, slightly below government forecast of 5 percent.
