Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom said an investigation would be made over the claim of a same-sex marriage abroad allegedly involving a Malay man.
"We will have to investigate because anyone can wear a tengkolok (headgear). Let's see," he said after attending a convocation at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia here.
A newspaper yesterday reported that a website had published a report of the same-sex marriage of a man pictured in Malay attire, complete with headgear, to a Caucasian, in a church abroad.
The local cyber community has also been abuzz since Friday night with reports of a former University College Dublin (UCD) student's purported marriage to a man.
Pictures of his "wedding" to an Irish man have spread like wild fire on blogs and social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter.
This came to light after his family's plight was highlighted recently. Petronas had issued a summons to his family demanding repayment of the student's education loan amounting to RM890,000.
The 28-year-old began studying medicine at UCD in 2003, but extended his studies for a few more semesters in 2008.
He was suspended for failing to pay his academic fees that year when Petronas refused to sponsor the additional expenses of over RM160,000 a year.
The student's father had advised his son to continue his studies in Malaysia, but the latter refused and returned to Dublin, cutting off all contact.
The father, a retiree, has been looking for his son since and had made eight trips to Dublin in addition to lodging missing person's reports with the police, Wisma Putra and the Irish and Malaysian embassies.
On Wednesday, Malaysian Ambassador to Ireland Datuk Ramli Naam confirmed that the student was in Dublin. But, Ramli said that the embassy and Wisma Putra would not disclose any further details out of respect for the Dublin Personal Data Protection Act.
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