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Chinese e-payment giants WeChat Pay and Alipay enter Malaysia

Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay have taken their battle for e-payment supremacy to Malaysia, as that country’s government seeks to introduce cashless payment systems.

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