Vietnam lawmakers approve US$15.4bil economic stimulus package on Tuesday (Jan 11)

HANOI, Jan 11 (Reuters): Vietnamese legislators on Tuesday approved a stimulus package worth nearly 350 trillion dong (US$15.4 billion) for the 2022-2023 period to prop up the country's pandemic-hit economy and support those impacted by coronavirus curbs.

The Southeast Asian country is targeting gross domestic product expansion of 6.0% to 6.5% this year, up from last year's decades-low growth of 2.58%.