Thai manga starts new chapter via digital platforms

Smartphone apps help develop domestic industry

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A woman shows off a Thai-language manga at a sales event hosted by Kadokawa Contents Academy in Bangkok.

MARIMI KISHIMOTO, Nikkei staff writer

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.

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