A group of Malaysian local government officials has cancelled an Egyptian cruise and a troupe of belly dancers amid outrage at their all-expenses paid trip, media reports said on Thursday.
Dinner on board a cruise ship on the Nile and the belly dancing have been replaced on their itinerary by an extended visit to the Egypt Museum in Cairo, local Malaysian media reports said.
Five members of the public accounts committee from Selangor state, which surrounds Kuala Lumpur, had been scheduled to take part in the entertainment as part of an eight-day trip.
Now, after newspapers in this mainly Muslim country highlighted the belly-dancing aspect of the trip, “the members will spend most of their time on educational visits”, said committee secretary Bakhtiar Hussin. — AFP