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Smartphone users in Myanmar. (Photo by Yuichi Nitta)

TOKYO/YANGON -- In a tiny village in central Myanmar, about a two-hour drive from the nation's second largest city Mandalay, electricity does not arrive through power lines. It comes from home generators or solar panels.

But that does not stop the locals from charging their smartphones.

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