malaysia scandal

Politico-sex potboiler in Malaysia
The two leading candidates to be prime minister are both fighting scandals. Anwar Ibrahim has been accused once again of illegal anal intercourse (his career apparently survived a 1990 incident, in which prosecutors brought a bloody mattress to court), and, in the other corner, deputy prime minister Najib Razak, whose alleged Mongolian mistress has been killed, with the chief suspect being a Najib political henchman. Witnesses are appearing and disappearing right and left, but unlike previous cases of Malaysian corruption, bloggers are at work publishing leaks from officials' foot-soldiers. New York Times