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A Chinese customer uses Alipay to make a purchases at a store in Singapore. Alipay operator Ant Group has big plans for Southeast Asia. © AP

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SINGAPORE -- These days restaurants, taxis and even vending machines in Singapore accept Chinese e-payment service Alipay -- despite the fact that few Singaporeans use it.

"We have Chinese customers, so we introduced it," one restaurant manager in the central business district told Nikkei Asian Review.

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