POLL | It’s the end of the year, and Malaysiakini again lets its readers decide what they think are the most important news stories of 2018.

A total of 3,445 readers participated in this year’s survey, which ran for seven days.

They voted by entering a score on each of the 18 news items selected by Malaysiakini - from 0 (lowest interest) to 10 (highest).

Here are the top news of 2018…

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