The government will not consider a visa application by Taiwanese politician Chu Mei-feng to hold a concert here, a report said today.

"We understand that she was a victim of circumstances and we sympathise with her," Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung was quoted as saying by The Star .

"However, we are unable to accept that after having undergone this, she has somehow managed to use the circumstances to make herself famous and make a lot of money."

Chor said he was informed that Chu, who is at the centre of a high-profile sex scandal in Taiwan, had been revealing names of people whom she had had intimate liaisons with.

"She may do it here and these revelations will not go down too well with the public."

'Clean' show

The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), which is a member of the ruling coalition, has barred Chu from performing in its hall, saying she was a bad role model for young people.

But the event organiser has appealed to the government to let her perform to allow her to start a new career and said the concert would be a "clean" two-hour show with Chu recounting her unfortunate experience, singing and dancing.

The former Taipei city councillor, who was secretly filmed having sex with a married lover, has already released a book describing her ordeal after the scandal broke.

The Malaysian performance planned for March 23 and 24 would follow Chu's first public appearance as a singer in neighbouring Singapore over March 15-17 in a show entitled "Confessions of Chu Mei-feng".

Chu, 36, gained notoriety after illicit VCDs of her sex session were released by a Taiwan tabloid and found their way onto the black market and the Internet. (AFP)