Cambodia banned from its airwaves a hugely popular love song about a monk quitting his orders for love, saying it was disrespectful to monks and Buddhists across the country.
"Leaving the Monkhood for Love" by one of Cambodia's best-known singers Heng Bunleap was released last month and had been enjoying wide play on radio and television.
The sensual video of the song features chanting monks and shows the bare-chested, shaven-headed recalcitrant monk frolicking with his lover in a lotus pond. The woman betrays him for another man, however, and he returns to the monkhood.
"Really regret these great saffron robes. Why won't you pity me?... I can't think about my darling changing her mind. I promise to join the monkhood again," Heng Bunleap croons.
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said in a statement issued to radio and TV stations that "the meaning of the song harms the honour of other monks who devote themselves to being in the monkhood and respect to Buddhism.
"Therefore in order to promote Buddhism, which is the state religion and which all Buddhists across the country follow, the ministry would like you to immediately stop playing the song."
A vendor at Olympic market told AFP she was doing a roaring trade selling the CD version, popular with both young and middle-aged people.
Cambodia is a predominantly Buddhist country, although the religion is still struggling to recover fully from the decimation of the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge regime, which particularly targetted monks during its murderous rule.