KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 — This year, the Malaysian courts certainly made headlines with salient verdicts handed down against politicians and public figures charged with corruption, money-laundering, criminal breach of trust (CBT) and murder cases.

PUTRAJAYA, March 18 — Malaysia's fiscal deficit is expected to rise to 6.0 per cent from an earlier estimate of 5.4 per cent this year following the implementation of the Pemerkasa stimulus package announced by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday.