Porn pic row snares student

When the students crowded around a computer in a Malaysian Chinese school's multimedia room took off quickly when a teacher entered the room, they left behind a screen full of pornographic photographs with a surprise.

Their discipline teacher's face had been digitally pasted onto one of the sexually explicit models, and the photographs were on the internet.

The teacher reported the compromising photographs to the headmaster and the discipline teacher immediately. The headmaster later lodged a report at the Penang district police headquarters, the Malaysian news agency, Bernama reported.

Follow-up investigations pointed towards an angry student considered "computer savvy", who had recently been punished by the discipline teacher for breaking school rules.

No action has yet to be taken against anyone involved, a school spokesman who confirmed the incident, said.

Malaysia practices extensive censorship, cutting violence and sexual references, including kissing, from movies and television. Magazines with nudity and other explicit images have the sections blacked out. However, pirated uncensored DVDs and VCDs, including pornography, is widely available, despite police pressure.

Staff, CNET Asia