BANGKOK • In the calm before the lunch-hour scrum at Bangkok's Udom Suk market, Ms Somsong Samnan patiently teaches a customer how to pay for his purchase using an application on his mobile phone.
"Can you do it?" the 53-year-old vendor coos gently, as the customer fumbles with his phone.
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