Malaysian minister quits over sex video
Malaysia's health minister resigned Wednesday, over a widely circulated sex tape, Reuters says.
Wednesday, 02.01.2008.
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Malaysia's health minister resigned Wednesday, over a widely circulated sex tape, Reuters says. The resignation came a day after he shocked the nation by admitting he was the man in the video. Malaysian minister quits over sex video Health Minister Chua Soi Lek, who has apologized after two DVDs showing him engaging in sexual acts with an unidentified woman hit the streets, said he was certain Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would accept his resignation. The scandal is the latest in a series of problems plaguing Abdullah's government, which has been widely expected to call a snap election in the coming weeks. "After I made my confession, I had hoped Malaysians would be able to accept my apology," the 61-year-old Chua told reporters. "Unfortunately, from the feedback I received, I observed that Malaysians cannot accept it." "Some Malaysians have a holier than thou attitude," said Chua, a doctor by training. Chua, who said the woman was a "personal friend", insisted on Tuesday he would not resign over the issue, drawing a sharp rebuke from people within and outside government. "Perhaps, painful as it may be to him, Chua should relinquish his government position to save himself and the government from further anguish," the pro-government New Straits Times daily said in a commentary on Wednesday. Chua, a father of three, said he did not make the two sex DVDs. Newspapers have said the DVDs were closed-circuit recordings made two years ago in a hotel room. One DVD lasted 56 minutes and the other 44 minutes. Police were probing the case, including on who made the recordings and how four cameras came to be in the room of a hotel in the southern state of Johor, New Straits Times said. Abdullah's four-year-old administration has been beset with major problems lately, a sign he may be forced to delay elections beyond March, when many had expected them to take place. In late November, more than 10,000 ethnic Indians took to the streets in an unprecedented protest to complain of racial discrimination.
Malaysian minister quits over sex video
Health Minister Chua Soi Lek, who has apologized after two DVDs showing him engaging in sexual acts with an unidentified woman hit the streets, said he was certain Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would accept his resignation.The scandal is the latest in a series of problems plaguing Abdullah's government, which has been widely expected to call a snap election in the coming weeks.
"After I made my confession, I had hoped Malaysians would be able to accept my apology," the 61-year-old Chua told reporters. "Unfortunately, from the feedback I received, I observed that Malaysians cannot accept it."
"Some Malaysians have a holier than thou attitude," said Chua, a doctor by training.
Chua, who said the woman was a "personal friend", insisted on Tuesday he would not resign over the issue, drawing a sharp rebuke from people within and outside government.
"Perhaps, painful as it may be to him, Chua should relinquish his government position to save himself and the government from further anguish," the pro-government New Straits Times daily said in a commentary on Wednesday.
Chua, a father of three, said he did not make the two sex DVDs. Newspapers have said the DVDs were closed-circuit recordings made two years ago in a hotel room. One DVD lasted 56 minutes and the other 44 minutes.
Police were probing the case, including on who made the recordings and how four cameras came to be in the room of a hotel in the southern state of Johor, New Straits Times said.
Abdullah's four-year-old administration has been beset with major problems lately, a sign he may be forced to delay elections beyond March, when many had expected them to take place.
In late November, more than 10,000 ethnic Indians took to the streets in an unprecedented protest to complain of racial discrimination.
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