{"id":5958,"date":"2014-10-10T15:40:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T07:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2024-11-01T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T02:43:20","slug":"prime-minister-najib-to-table-budget-2015-4pm-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/prime-minister-najib-to-table-budget-2015-4pm-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Najib To Table Budget 2015 4pm Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/prime-minister-najib-to-table-budget-2015-4pm-today\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Najib1.jpg\" alt=\"Najib\" width=\"258\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Najib1.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Najib1-98x105.jpg 98w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Najib1-94x100.jpg 94w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Najib1-22x24.jpg 22w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Najib1-33x36.jpg 33w, https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Najib1-45x48.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will table the 2015 Budget in the Dewan Rakyat at 4 pm, the last budget under the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP).<\/p>\n<p>Like other financial blueprints, Najib who is also Finance Minister, hinted yesterday that the 2015 Budget would be \u201cpro-rakyat\u201d and would include measures to ease concerns over the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the budget would help enhance job opportunities, improve education and create more affordable housing, he said in a statement yesterday. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The prime minister has also underlined the importance of the 1Malaysia People&#8217;s Aid (BR1M) programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBR1M will continue as it is part of our manifesto. It is part of our subsidy rationalisation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy switching from blanket subsidies to more targeted support, we are getting better value for money,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The premier also stressed the importance of continuing the government\u2019s deficit reduction measures to ensure the country achieved a balanced budget by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Najib added the government was on track to meet its fiscal deficit targets which included reducing the deficit to 3.5 per cent by year-end and three per cent by end-2015. \u2015 Bernama<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaymailonline.com\/malaysia\/article\/budget-2015-najib-to-table-last-budget-under-the-10th-malaysia-plan-at-4pm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Malay Mail Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will table the 2015 Budget in the Dewan Rakyat at 4 pm, the last budget under the 10th Malaysia Plan (10MP). Like other financial blueprints, Najib who is also Finance Minister, hinted yesterday that the 2015 Budget would be \u201cpro-rakyat\u201d and would include measures to ease concerns over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-malaysia-tax-budget","tag-malaysia-budget-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbc.com.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}