Malaysian minister resigns over sex video scandal

Chua Soi Lek

Malaysia's health minister resigned yesterday after admitting his role in a video showing him having sex with a female friend in a hotel room.
Chua Soi Lek, 61, the most senior member of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's government to resign after a sex scandal, announced that he was also stepping down from parliament.
"I won't be the first and I won't be the last (politician to be caught in such a situation)," Chua, a married man with three children, told a hastily convened news conference.
"It is up to the public to judge me," he added.
Chua admitted on Tuesday that he was in the video, which has been splashed on the front pages of Malaysian newspapers since the DVD started circulating in southern Johor state last week.
Chua is vice president of the Malaysian Chinese Association, a key part of Abdullah's coalition government.