June 4, 2008

• Taxis get £1m for eco-makeover

  Greenbang has been inspired by Nick Hornby and has created her all time top four of legendary taxi drivers.
  1. Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
  2. Stephen Fry - actually owns his taxi
  3. (…)

• Cheap Thrills in Beijing: Try Riding a Taxi

  In Beijing, nothing is as certain as death and taxis. (…)

June 3, 2008

• Taxi fares to rise, but rate still not set

  Taxi fares will go up, but by how much will not be known for another two weeks. (…)

• Shanghai to merge taxi firms in revamp -sources

  Shanghai plans to merge two major taxi operators and create a new industry leader in a government-backed consolidation ahead of the World Expo to be hosted by the city in 2010, sources familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. (…)

June 2, 2008

• Men tie taxi driver, rob vehicle

  Police are searching for two Fijian men who robbed a taxi driver before taking off in his vehicle. (…)

May 27, 2008

• Issue licences directly to taxi drivers

  I REFER to your report ”Individual taxi permits” dated May 13 and strongly believe that it is the right move to clean up the taxi business. (…)

May 25, 2008

• Taxi drivers from South Goa yearn to own cabs

  Taxi drivers from South Goa feel that they are often misunderstood. The economics of plying taxi has not helped the drivers as perceived. (…)

• It started in a taxi for the Beltrans

  MANILA, Philippines—The love affair of Crispin “Ka Bel” Beltran and Rosario “Ka Osang” Soto began in the unlikeliest place—a taxicab.
  It was Nov. 10, 1956. (…)

• Cops apprehend 7 ‘picky’ taxi drivers in Makati

  MANILA, Philippines - Seven taxi drivers have been apprehended in Makati City for refusing to convey passengers and contracting services as the city government intensifies its operations against abusive cab drivers. (…)

May 22, 2008

• V-Link set to ramp up its radio taxi fleet

  MUMBAI: V-Link Taxi, which operates the Meru brand of radio taxis in Mumbai, plans to increase its fleet of taxis across the country to 3,500 by the year end, from about 1,600 on Wednesday. (…)

May 21, 2008

• A TAXI RIDE OF HOPE

  TO HELP relief efforts in Sichuan Province, transport operator ComfortDelGro has contributed a bus, three mini-buses and 35 taxis. (…)

May 19, 2008

• Cops recover P1.7-M jewelry from errant cabbie

  MANILA, Philippines—Police on Saturday morning recovered from a taxi driver a bag that contained at least P1.7 million worth of jewelry which belonged to his passenger. (…)

• Broke man runs up ¥90,000 taxi fare

  MITO, Ibaraki Pref. (Kyodo) Police have arrested a 50-year-old man who took a taxi from Tokyo to Namegata, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saturday night and failed to pay the roughly ¥90,000 fare. (…)

May 17, 2008

• Taxi driver dies of heart failure behind wheel

  A foreign passenger managed to stop a taxi safely after its driver suddenly died apparently of heart failure behind the scene Saturday morning, police said. (…)

May 15, 2008

• Stabbing suspect also believed to have assaulted taxi driver

  KUALA LUMPUR: The suspect who was nabbed for the multiple stabbing of clerk Lee Hui Fun last Friday, had also left another casualty. (…)

• He fought 3 robbers who boarded his taxi but was outnumbered, overpowered

  THE policeman who fought against three robbers who rode the taxi he was driving died from two gunshot wounds less than an hour after he was attacked in Lapu-Lapu City Tuesday night. (…)

• Passengers assault and kill taxi driver

  KUALA LUMPUR: A taxi driver was killed after he was beaten up and robbed by two passengers near a Tamil school in Batu Caves here on Tuesday night. (…)

May 13, 2008

• Airport cabbies hard hit by touts

  TAXI touts are now going about luring passengers discreetly at both the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) and the KLIA main terminal in Sepang. (…)

• Proposal will allow cabbies to earn more, says minister

  A PROPOSAL to allow individual licences for taxi drivers will be tabled in Cabinet by the Entrepreneurial and Cooperatives Development Ministry, said its minister Datuk Noh Omar. (…)

May 12, 2008

• Dewan Rakyat: Govt may revive taxi permits for individuals

  KUALA LUMPUR: The government may revive issuance of taxi permits to individuals to address problems faced by taxi drivers following the decision to approve the permits only to companies, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. (…)