The malaysiakini team wishes all our readers Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We thank you for your continued support throughout the year.

We also take this opportunity to inform that we will be taking a short break from today, Dec 25, to Jan 1. We will be back on Jan 2 with more news and views that matter.

We are leaving you with a special year-end series of articles that look at the top 10 stories of the year and our traditional 'X-files: Unresolved cases'. Columnist Hishamuddin Rais reminisces the many Christmases he had enjoyed. We have also chosen a newsmaker of the year, based on the impact this person has made on the society. Happy reading.

We hope that the new year will see some progress in our struggle for press freedom, advances in the protection of human rights, and greater transparency in governance.



Wargakerja malaysiakini mengucapkan selamat menyambut Hari Krismas dan Selamat Tahun Baru kepada semua pembaca kami yang dihormati.

Kakitangan malaysiakini akan bercuti mulai 25 Disember dan akan kembali semula menemui anda semua pada hari Khamis, 2 Januari dengan lebih banyak berita dan rencana menarik.