Published on: Sept 09, 2025 08:19 pm IST Bengaluru’s traffic police have mandated ride-hailing and delivery companies to incorporate no-parking zones in their apps to ease traffic in the city. In a move to ease congestion on Bengaluru’s busy roads, the city’s traffic police have instructed ride-hailing and delivery platforms to include no-parking zones within…
Hong Kong police have arrested a 53-year-old man for allegedly providing his information to a fraud syndicate to create a rented ride-hailing account and are searching for three other suspects, following a passenger’s complaint about a driver without a Hong Kong ID card. Police Superintendent Li Muk-yik, who called the syndicate’s behaviour “extremely despicable”, said…
A mainland Chinese visitor has been jailed for two months and disqualified from driving in Hong Kong for a year after he was found to have offered ride-hailing services without the required permit. Ye Hai, 41, on Wednesday admitted to offering paid rides using the online mapping service Amap on July 7, three days after…
Andrew Yiu* is at a crossroads about whether to continue his job as a full-time Uber driver, as the Hong Kong government plans to regulate ride-hailing platforms and impose requirements such as vehicle age limits. The city is set to legalise ride-hailing platforms in the first half of next year, ending over a decade of…
Nearly 80 per cent of 4,800 Uber drivers polled in Hong Kong are worried that a strict quota or high licensing fees under coming new regulations for ride-hailing platforms will threaten their livelihoods. The results of the poll conducted by platform operator Uber in June were revealed on Tuesday, just days after Secretary for Transport…
An influential taxi union will send an ultimatum to the Hong Kong government to demand a clampdown on illegal ride-hailing services run by operators such as Uber and Amap, and is threatening to strike for five days next month. The Hong Kong Tele-call Taxi Association said it held an internal meeting on Tuesday, where about…