BANGKOK: Thailand’s parliament on Saturday passed a delayed draft budget bill for the 2020 fiscal year aimed at boosting South-East Asia’s second-largest economy, which is growing at its slowest pace in years.
The budget’s approval was key for the survival of the coalition government, which has a slim majority in parliament. A defeat would have forced former junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha’s government to either resign or dissolve parliament.
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