KOTA KINABALU - When undergraduate Veveonah Mosibin uploaded a video of herself climbing a tree in the northern tip of Sabah in June to get Internet access for an online exam, it quickly became a viral icon of Malaysia's second-poorest state's lack of infrastructural development.
But it was only when snap polls were called in July - after defectors deprived Chief Minister Shafie Apdal of control of the state legislature - that it became a touchpaper political issue.
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