Malaysians 'not proud' of Beckham scandal girl

News that a Malaysian-born woman is at the centre of a sex scandal surrounding soccer superstar David Beckham is nothing for Malaysians to be proud of, a minister said in Kuala Lumpur.

“I am disappointed with some local newspapers that have highlighted the scandal as if it is the nation’s pride for a local to sleep with a celebrity,” Zainuddin Maidin, Malaysia’s deputy information minister, was quoted as saying in the New Straits Times newspaper.