Bond issuance carefully planned - deputy minister

PARLIAMENT | The Finance Ministry gives assurance that its bond issuance throughout the year has been carefully planned, and the ministry is also redeeming bonds at the same time.

This comes after Hassan Karim (Pakatan Harapan-Pasir Gudang) questioned Deputy Finance Minister Amiruddin Hamzah about a report saying the government had issued RM81.3 billion in bonds for the first half of 2019.

"Is this statistic true? I am worried that Malaysia will become like Greece...