The malaysiakini team wishes all our readers Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We thank you for making this website your trusted source of information throughout the year.

We will be taking a short break from today, Dec 25, to Jan 2 and will be back on Jan 3 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 ' of unresolved cases. And we have also chosen a newsmaker of the year . Happy reading.

We hope that the new year will see further 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 Isnin, 3 Januari dengan lebih banyak berita dan rencana menarik.