At the first light of day Meng Chek deftly scales up the nearly 10m-high palm tree with a parang and a bunch of recycled plastic bottles hanging from his waist.
He does this by using an old bamboo stalk secured to the tree trunk and using the dried offshoot stems as footholds. It takes him only a few minutes to reach the top.
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