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Where the Taxis Are Motorcycles, and the Drivers Are Women

January 31, 2025Tara Todras-Whitehill and Sarah HurtesComments Off on Where the Taxis Are Motorcycles, and the Drivers Are Women

Kenya’s “Boda Girls” are turning a male-dominated industry upside down. Their favored customers are pregnant women needing rides to the hospital.

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Hong Kong’s Cabbies, Long Scorned and Frustrated, Face the End of an Era

January 5, 2025January 5, 2025David Pierson and Berry WangComments Off on Hong Kong’s Cabbies, Long Scorned and Frustrated, Face the End of an Era

A government push to modernize taxi services comes up against the habits of drivers known for driving fast and accepting only cash.

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Hong Kong’s Cabbies, Long Scorned and Frustrated, Face the End of an Era

January 5, 2025David Pierson and Berry WangComments Off on Hong Kong’s Cabbies, Long Scorned and Frustrated, Face the End of an Era

A government push to modernize taxi services comes up against the habits of drivers known for driving fast and accepting only cash.

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A Tokyo Taxi Driver Is Charged With Running Down a Pigeon

December 22, 2023December 26, 2023Hisako Ueno and Yan ZhuangComments Off on A Tokyo Taxi Driver Is Charged With Running Down a Pigeon

The arrest of the 50-year-old driver highlighted the strict law in Japan against harming the birds, even if they take over balconies or get in the way of traffic.

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London’s Black Cabs Can Soon Join Uber. But Will They?

November 29, 2023ISABELLA KWAIComments Off on London’s Black Cabs Can Soon Join Uber. But Will They?

In 2024, passengers are set to have the option to book black cabs through Uber. After longstanding tensions, a union for drivers said they “have no interest.”

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Italy’s Government Takes Aim at Taxi Shortages

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023ELISABETTA POVOLEDOComments Off on Italy’s Government Takes Aim at Taxi Shortages

The government took steps this week to increase the supply of cabs after months of shortages, but critics say the problems with the industry run deeper.

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How 2 Students Rescued Dozens of People from the Fighting in Sudan

May 5, 2023May 6, 2023DECLAN WALSHComments Off on How 2 Students Rescued Dozens of People from the Fighting in Sudan

As feuding generals turned the Sudanese capital into a war zone, two university students navigated a battered Toyota through the chaos and saved at least 60 desperate people.

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Liverpool Bomber Had Planned for Months, U.K. Police Say

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021MEGAN SPECIAComments Off on Liverpool Bomber Had Planned for Months, U.K. Police Say

The authorities named the man they believe to be behind an explosion in a taxi outside a hospital, who was also the only person killed, as Emad Al Swealmeen, 32.

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Your Monday Briefing

September 12, 2021Amelia NierenbergComments Off on Your Monday Briefing

The U.S. lags on vaccines.

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‘It’s a Godsend’: 9-Cent Taxi Rides in Rural South Korea

September 11, 2021CHOE SANG-HUNComments Off on ‘It’s a Godsend’: 9-Cent Taxi Rides in Rural South Korea

One county’s plan to help older, carless citizens stuck in remote villages proved wildly popular and has been copied across South Korea, revolutionizing public transportation in the countryside.

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