KUCHING: Local media should be proactive to counter destructive propaganda about Malaysia in the foreign press, said Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr George Chan Hong Nam.
He said the latest damaging campaign by the west against the countrys oil palm industry used the survival of the orang utans as an issue.
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