A Chinese mobile phone user browses online shopping site Taobao.com. Photo: AFP
A Chinese mobile phone user browses online shopping site Taobao.com. Photo: AFP

Ahead of Amazon’s plans to launch ecommerce services in Singapore in the first quarter of this year, Lazada is launching Alibaba’s popular Taobao shopping platform in the city-state, reports Bloomberg. In addition to a dedicated Singapore website, the service will add an additional 400,000 products to the existing five million.