Saturday May 9, 2009
Bare naked on Johor isle
Compiled by SIM LEOI LEOI, BEH YUEN HUI and A.RAMAN
AN ISLAND off Mersing in Johor has become a hot spot after it was used as the location for a European reality show, which had its participants running stark naked.
Scenes from the Survivor Robinson Ekspeditionen programme, which had been broadcast over TV3 in Denmark, were published on an online newspaper ScandAsia.com.
A reader with family ties to Malaysia alerted Harian Metro about the programe.
In the scenes, both men and women were seen running along a sandy beach without a stitch on.
The Danish national who e-mailed the images to Metro said he was surprised that the Malaysian authorities had allowed the filming although the show was soft porn.
It is believed that this was the first time the programme had made 16 out of its 22 participants strip naked for the run while five others got to keep their underwear on.
It is also understood that a woman who refused to strip was kicked out of the show and sent home to Denmark.
An official at the Mersing District Council said it had only allowed the filming after telling the producers that they could not have naked scenes on the island as it might offend local residents.
“The filming was originally scheduled at Pulau Besar for this and next month before moving to other islands,” he said.
> Utusan Malaysia reported that three-month pregnant Saripah Mohd Noor, 34, who fell and was run over when robbers snatched her handbag, only had RM2 at that time.
According to her mother Hashimah Hussin, 54, Saripah never carried large amounts of money and had wanted to use the RM2 to buy tidbits for her children.
“She did not have any money on her so she asked some from me, but I didn’t have any either. She then borrowed RM5 from her in-law.
“She went to the fill up RM3 worth of petrol in her motorcycle and the rest was to buy tidbits,” she said.
> Kosmo! highlighted a freak accident in Alor Setar where an ustaz, who was fetching his son from school on his motorcycle during a drizzle, was killed by lightning.
Mohd Fozei Saad, 41, was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was confirmed dead while his son suffered burns.
> Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a sub-heading, it denotes a separate news item.
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