There could be a slight hiccup in Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne’s upcoming concert tour of Asia — It looks like some folks in Malaysia aren’t too happy with her planned stop-over in the city of Kuala Lumpur.

“It is considered too sexy for us,” explains Kamarulzaman Mohamed, a representative of the country’s Pan-Malaysian Islamic party. “It’s not good for viewers in Malaysia… We don’t want our people, our teenagers, influenced by their performance. We want clean artists, artists that are good role models.’

Avril had been scheduled to play Kuala Lumpur on Aug. 29, but that date could now be in jeopardy. According to the Associated Press, members of the Culture Ministry will be meeting tomorrow to discuss whether or not to go forward with the concert.

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Avril Lavigne has earned $1 million from people watching the video to her hit single Girlfriend online.

The promo has clocked over 100 million hits on video sharing site YouTube.com since it was posted on the internet by RCA record company executives last year – and Lavigne’s earnings have rocketed as a result.

Every time the video is viewed, an advert is played and the singer receives a fee, reports Gigwise.com.

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Is Avril Lavigne’s Best Damn Tour cursed?

Before the Complicated singer hit the road earlier this year, she had never had to cancel a single show.

But now the 23-year-old has axed nine in less than two months!

After canceling concerts in San Diego and Phoenix due to a bout of laryngitis, Avril has had to scratch another in Barcelona, Spain, because of a truckers’ strike.

Disaster first struck back on April 30 when her voice went out at a rehearsal before her show at the Cox Arena in San Diego, forcing her to cancel two dates and re-schedule six more.

But the acute laryngitis passed after she got some rest at home, and they got the show back on the road for the European leg.

Now fate has dealt another blow.

Truckers in Spain are blocking major routes into the country as part of an “indefinite” protest against high fuel prices, meaning the star will not be able to make her June 15 concert in Barcelona.

In an email, Barcelona concert promoter Doctor Music tells OK!, “the concert was canceled because of [the unwillingness] of the artist.”

The tour is scheduled to finish in St. John’s, Canada, on August 13. But who knows what will have happened by then!

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Avril Lavigne has sold her Beverly Hills mansion for $5.2 million.

The pop star’s Mulholland Estates home features tropical gardens, a pool and spa as well as a gourmet kitchen.

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Britney Spears already has her famous family of fragrances, and Christina Aguilera will launch her first American scent soon — and now it looks like pop’s edgier princess is getting in on the fragrance game too. Avril Lavigne has just confirmed to WWD that she’s inked a deal with Proctor & Gamble Prestige Products to create a perfume line directed at her teen fans.

“Creating this fragrance is a fun process and I am looking forward to sharing it with everyone,” she tells the paper. And while there’s no official launch date yet, the fragrance is expected to hit stores sometime during the second half of 2009.

Will you wear Avril’s scent?

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Illness has forced Canadian singer Avril Lavigne to pull out of six dates of the US leg of her worldwide tour.

The 23-year-old has cancelled six concerts from The Best Damn Tour due to acute laryngitis.

Four shows in California – Anaheim, Universal City, Santa Barbara and San Jose – and two in Washington – Everett and Spokane – have been dropped.

A message on the singer’s website said refunds would be available from point of purchase from Monday onwards.

Avril had already canceled shows in Phoenix and San Diego due to illness.

“My sincerest apologies to all of my fans,” she said on her official website.

“My intention was to complete the rest of the tour but tonight at sound check in Anaheim I realised this wasn’t possible. Even though I have been resting my voice for days, when I tried to sing nothing came out.”

She went on to say: “I have never canceled a show in my whole career and just had to for the first time ever. This sux [sic]!”

Avril is next due to perform in Glasgow on May 26th as the UK-leg of her tour begins.

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