BANGKOK -- Thailand has begun writing the story of its own manga industry, as smartphone apps and other digital platforms develop the business in a country long known as a heavy consumer of Japanese content.
Ookbee rises
Smartphone apps help develop domestic industry

A woman shows off a Thai-language manga at a sales event hosted by Kadokawa Contents Academy in Bangkok.
BANGKOK -- Thailand has begun writing the story of its own manga industry, as smartphone apps and other digital platforms develop the business in a country long known as a heavy consumer of Japanese content.
Ookbee rises