COMMENT Just the other day my Pinoy friend, Chito Del Fierro Delavega, Facebooked me from Manila about a shocker of a scandal surrounding the crown prince of Selangor.

"Is this true Uncle Bob?" he asked me about a sensational story alleging the prince had converted to Catholicism.

This is a story the mainstream media will never ever touch in Malaysia. Although there is no lèse majesté law in the country, unlike in Thailand, anything on the monarchy is strictly off limits in Malaysia.