The British colonized Api Api, an exotic port on the South China Sea and named it Jesselton at the dawn of the 20th century. During WWII, the Japanese seized control for its strategic geography until the Allied Forces bombed it into rubble and what was left, the Japanese burned to destroy any evidence. Only four structures stand today from its pre-war period. And that goes a long way of explaining why this country is still very much at the tail end of development. Sidewalks a