The 15th National Assembly on November 30 passed a resolution on the investment policy for the North-South high-speed railway project with 443 out of 454 deputies voting in favour.

The State budget overspending in 2020 stood at over 216.4 trillion VND (9.3 billion USD), equivalent to 3.44 percent of GDP, statistics showed.

The Indonesian Government has allocated 682.8 trillion rupiah (47.4 billion USD) to health care and social security in the draft State budget in 2022.

Indonesia is preparing to offer 900.4 trillion Rp (62.35 billion USD) worth of sovereign debt papers (SBN) in the second half of the year as debt financing swells significantly to fund the country’s coronavirus response, Jakarta Post reported.

Nearly 3,000 rural households in the northern mountainous province Son La will be connected to the national power grid under a project that started on January 12.

National Assembly deputies heard the government reports on the State budget estimate for 2015 and budget allocation for 2016 during a plenary session in Hanoi on October 20.