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Resigning over 'fake sex scandal' not our way - Mahathir

Minister of Economic Affairs Azmin Ali, implicated in sex video scandal, continues to have the support of the Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Mahathir said there was no need for Azmin to resign, as resigning over a forged scandal was not the way of Malaysia.

"There is no necessity (for him to go) simply because people in another country do this.

"I know in one country if a plane crashes in an airfield the minister of transport resigns or throws himself out of a building," he said.

"But it is not our way," Mahathir told the media...

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