The palm oil giant Sinar Mas, which was threatened last week with expulsion from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil for allegedly illegally clearing tropical rainforest and deep peatlands, is part of a Singapore-based agribusiness giant that has long had been accused wrecking the environment in several countries. It is controversial as well because in 2001 its forest products arm, Asia Pulp and Paper, staged the biggest debt default in Asian history.