Taxi Driver

Letters to the Editor, May 22, 2013

22 May 2013

Hong Kong is currently going through a period of realisation that, because a greater proportion of its inhabitants are in the "senior" category, something needs to be done about the retirement age...

2:53AM

Cheating cabbie fined for trying to use obsolete Peruvian notes

22 Mar 2013

A taxi driver who tried to deceive passengers with Peruvian banknotes that were no longer in circulation tarnished Hong Kong's reputation as a tourist paradise and shamed law-abiding cabbies, a...

4:07AM

Passenger tears up 100-yuan note to pay taxi driver

2 Feb 2013

What happens when you are stuck in a taxi without enough small change to pay the fare?

Li Yong (not his real name), a taxi driver in China's southwestern Chongqing, was astonished by an "...

1:17PM

Briefs, January 20, 2013

20 Jan 2013

HK$4.4m of silver seized at checkpoint

Customs seized 515kg of smuggled silver valued at HK$4.42 million on Friday from a private car entering the city via the Western Corridor border post...

4:32AM

City Digest, December 21, 2012

21 Dec 2012

Taxi driver nabbed for making off with bags

A cabbie, 34, was arrested for theft after he sped off with his mainland passenger's bags containing HK$50,000 worth of branded goods at Chek Lap...

3:55AM

Singapore cabbie returns S$900,000 to Thai couple

20 Nov 2012

A Singaporean taxi driver has been heralded as a hero after he returned S$1.1 million (US$900,000) in cash to a vacationing Thai couple who left the money in his cab.

4:33PM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

4:27AM

Taxi driver sought over Halloween rape bid in Tseung Kwan O

A hunt has been launched for a taxi driver accused of trying to rape a drunken woman passenger on her way home from Halloween celebrations.

3:46AM

Taxi driver who killed three pedestrians jailed

A taxi driver who killed three people when he ploughed into them after they had survived a bus crash was jailed for three years and four months yesterday.

3:17AM

City Digest, October 4, 2012

Taxi driver who killed 3 tourists is behind bars

4:27AM

COURTS

Cabbie banned for cheating officer posing as tourist out of HK$500

A cabbie who cheated a police officer, posing as a Putonghua-speaking visitor, out of HK$500 was ordered yesterday to perform 100 hours of community service.

3:42AM

Taxi driver misses out on HK$2m windfall

A taxi driver who found a bag containing more than HK$2 million in his cab a year ago has been told the bad news - he can't keep it. The rightful owner had belatedly stepped forward to reclaim his...

5:06PM

What to do with HK$2m found in back of a taxi?

Police are in a pickle over what to do with more than HK$2 million left in the back of a cab in Wan Chai.

5:07AM