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Video Report: Coping with the Phuket taxi crackdown

Legacy Phuket GazetteWednesday, June 11, 2014Last Updated: Wednesday, June 11, 2014

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Video Report: Coping with the Phuket taxi crackdown

PHUKET: Island taxi drivers talk about the effects of the police crackdown on their businesses, as well as their fears and hopes for the future.

PGTV reports on the current Region 8 police crackdown on Phuket’s so-called taxi mafia and details some of the history of passenger abuse, unfair trading practices, intimidation and acts of violence against tourists and residents that led to the crackdown in the first place.

Taxi drivers worry about how they will survive. Video PGTV

— PGTV

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