BANGKOK - Thailand's House of Representatives passed the budget Bill for the 2020 financial year on Saturday (Jan 11) after four days of intense debate - and four months later than it is usually voted in.

The 3.2 trillion baht (S$142.7 billion) budget was passed with 253 votes for and zero against while 196 MPs abstained and one did not cast a vote. It was the biggest budget in the country's history, 200 billion baht higher than last year's.