Signs accepting WeChat Pay and AliPay are displayed at a shop in Singapore May 22, 2018. REUTERS/Edgar Su
SINGAPORE/HANOI: Bui Mai Phuong is an avid online shopper, ordering anything from clothing to personal-care products from her smartphone. But she prefers to pay with cash.
She is among hundreds of millions of people whom firms such as Softbank Group-backed Grab and China's Tencent want to win over as they try to tap into South-East Asia's burgeoning Internet sector.
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