Palm oil: Malaysia launches investigation into school for putting on ‘propaganda’ play about deforestation

An international school in Malaysia has become the latest target in the country’s crusade to promote its palm oil exports, with the government announcing it will launch an investigation after students there staged a play about deforestation and the negative environmental impact of palm oil cultivation.A video circulating online earlier in the week showed what appeared to be primary school pupils speaking on stage about the destruction caused by unsustainable palm oil cultivation, and linking…