(June 12): The arrest of a British tourist, who angered locals after she stripped naked on Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, has British authorities reviewing its travel advisory for visitors to Malaysia, The Guardian reports.

"The travel advice team is going to discuss with the Malaysian desk how best they think the travel advice should be updated in light of this incident.

"They are going to review it... they may include (reference to) it as a warning so that it doesn’t happen again," the paper quoted the Foreign Office as saying.

The current travel advisory to Britons visiting Malaysia urges them to “respect local traditions, customs, laws and religions at all times and be aware of your actions to ensure that they don’t offend”.

“You should also dress modestly, particularly in conservative and rural areas and when visiting places of worship," it added.

The Foreign Office website also has a warning to travellers to Sabah of "a general threat from terrorism", in the light of kidnapping incidents on the eastern coast of Sabah.

Eleanor Hawkins, 23, was among four tourists, including two Canadians and a Dutch, who was remanded Wednesday following outrage over their Facebook photos of them stripping on top of Mount Kinabalu.

The KadazanDusuns, who regard Mouth Kinabalu as sacred, blamed the act for the June 5 earthquake which struck Ranau, a town less than 17km from the mountain, which killed 18 people, mostly Singapore school pupils, on a mountain climbing programme.

The nude foreigners were also alleged to have urinated on the mountain, an act that the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Sabah Park Datuk Seri Tengku Zainal Adlin said, was disrespectful.

A KadazanDusun chief reportedly demanded that the tourists pay a fine of 10 buffalo to redeem their act.

Hawkins's father has since apologised for his daughter's stunt.

“She knows what she did was stupid and disrespectful and is very sorry for the offence that she has caused the Malaysian people.

“She has never been in any sort of trouble before," The Guardian quoted Tim Hawkins as saying.

The head of the private school in Derbyshire, which Hawkins attended, was also apologetic in a statement quoted by The Guardian.

“One of the key things we teach our students is that making mistakes is an unavoidable part of their lifelong learning.

"It appears that Eleanor has made an error of judgement in this case and her actions have angered many people as well as attracting press coverage," said headmaster Tom Brooksby. – The Malaysian Insider