SINGAPORE: By 7.30am, commuters were rushing across the busy junction of Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 and 8, but with about one in every eight still looking at their mobile phones.
Barely a few feet away from the passing cars, on the edge of the pavement, pedestrians stood transfixed by their devices as they waited to cross.
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