Taxi

  • Transport NewsTaxis and tuk tuks ask Thai government for help
    ThaigerFriday, January 29, 2021
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    Taxis and tuk tuks ask Thai government for help

    Unions of Thai Taxi workers and Thai automobile drivers have handed over an official request to a government labour committee to file a request to the government seeking financial support. Thai Taxi workers passed over their requests to Suthep Yoo-on, the chairman of the Labour Committee officially seeking industry support. Just about all sectors of the country’s transport infrastructure have…

  • Thailand NewsThailand News Today | Survey shows a third of tourism businesses are broke or shut down | January 25
    ThaigerMonday, January 25, 2021
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    Thailand News Today | Survey shows a third of tourism businesses are broke or shut down | January 25

    For those who need to extend their tourist visa, the Thai Immigration Bureau is asking that applicants make an appointment online to reserve their spot. The bureau says the online appointments will help with preventing the spread of Covid-19 by reducing overcrowding and making sure people abide by social distancing practices. And you thought it was about increasing efficiency. Applicants…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket taxis and tuk tuks under the microscope again after passenger ripped off
    ThaigerSaturday, December 12, 2020
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    Phuket taxis and tuk tuks under the microscope again after passenger ripped off

    Local Phuket transport and provincial officials are AGAIN trying to tackle the island’s notorious taxi and tuk tuk ‘mafias’, after another passenger complained of being ripped off. The island has a long history of extortionate transport costs for local taxis and tuk tuks, giving Phuket a poor and infamous reputation for over-priced transport and rude drivers. Efforts to attract travellers…

  • Bangkok NewsTaxi drivers in Bangkok can now charge “handling fees” for luggage
    Caitlin AshworthTuesday, November 17, 2020
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    Taxi drivers in Bangkok can now charge “handling fees” for luggage

    Bangkok taxis can now start charging passengers extra for large luggage items with handling fees ranging from 20 to 100 baht per item. Under the new regulations, taxi drivers are required to tell passengers about the extra costs before the ride. Bags larger than 26 inches will be 20 baht and items larger than 50 inches will be no more…

  • Tourism NewsPhuket launches app, passengers rate taxi drivers
    Caitlin AshworthSunday, September 6, 2020
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    Phuket launches app, passengers rate taxi drivers

    How was your taxi ride? Passengers will soon be able to rate their Phuket taxi drivers using a new smartphone application. The province’s project “Hello Taxi Happy Phuket” involves 300 drivers aimed at maintaining standards like fair pricing. Customers will be able to rate their ride experience on the app and driver’s will be scored on their service. So, if…

  • Bangkok NewsCollision results in fire in front of Bangkok’s Anti-Corruption Museum
    ThaigerFriday, August 28, 2020
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    Collision results in fire in front of Bangkok’s Anti-Corruption Museum

    A collision yesterday between a taxi and a BMW on Bangkok’s Phitsanulok Road yesterday directly in front of the Anti-Corruption Museum resulted in a fire in the taxi’s engine compartment. Both drivers denied responsibilty. Security from the nearby museum rushed out with a fire extinguisher, and firemen later arrived to finish the job. The taxi driver, “Weerasak”, said he was…

  • Thailand NewsThieving Suvarnabhumi cabbie nabbed
    ThaigerWednesday, August 26, 2020
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    Thieving Suvarnabhumi cabbie nabbed

    A shifty taxi driver made off with a bag that a previous passenger had left on a trolley at Suvarnabhumi airport. CCTV footage shows a man entering an orange cab with several bags but he forgetting a small backpack left dangling on a trolley. After a green and yellow cab arrived its place and some passengers had loaded up their…

  • Bangkok NewsWelcome to 7-Eleven – Ford injures 5 people as it crashes though Bangkok shop
    ThaigerMonday, August 10, 2020
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    Welcome to 7-Eleven – Ford injures 5 people as it crashes though Bangkok shop

    A car has collided with a taxi before losing control and smashing through the front of a local 7Eleven convenience store in Bangkok. 5 people were injured as the car burst through the front of the store. The 7Eleven store is opposite the Phaholyothin Police Station in front of Ratchadapisek 44. When rescue teams responded they found a white Ford Everest…

  • Thailand NewsCabbie’s body found in Bangkok petrol station toilet
    ThaigerFriday, July 17, 2020
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    Cabbie’s body found in Bangkok petrol station toilet

    A taxi driver’s body was found yesterday in the restroom of an NGV petrol station on Bangkok’s Kanlapaphreug Road. Police from Bang Khun Thian station in Jomthong district was alerted to a bad odour coming from the toilet. The body of 58 year old Kaew Srikan, a resident of Jomthong, was found seated inside. Police say the toilet was locked…

  • Bangkok NewsThe one that didn’t get away… a fish tale with a happy ending
    ThaigerFriday, June 12, 2020
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    The one that didn’t get away… a fish tale with a happy ending

    A man has been joyfully reunited with his prized, and very valuable, fish after leaving it in a pink Bangkok taxi. The fish’s owner hailed cab 6880 from Chatuchak market but got out of the vehicle in the Klong Toei area, leaving his “Channa Barca” snakehead fish inside in a plastic bag. The owner immediately contacted radio station JS 100,…

  • Crime NewsTaxi driver attacked and stabbed after accident in Bangkok
    Caitlin AshworthFriday, May 29, 2020
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    Taxi driver attacked and stabbed after accident in Bangkok

    A motorbike driver attacked a taxi driver on Wednesday this week after an accident by taking off his helmet and repeatedly hitting the driver with it before stabbing him with a screwdriver. A witness says the motorbike cut in front of the taxi on Phet Kasem Road, or Highway 4, in Bangkok, but the taxi couldn’t stop in time and…

  • Crime NewsPattaya motorbike taxi breaks through curfew checkpoint – VIDEO
    ThaigerSunday, May 17, 2020
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    Pattaya motorbike taxi breaks through curfew checkpoint – VIDEO

    A motorbike taxi in Pattaya broke through a police curfew checkpoint at around 10:30pm Friday. Though the curfew has now been adjusted to 11pm, at the time both the driver and his foreign passenger were in violation. The incident led to a police chase that was caught on video: Officers pursued the pair before arresting them on Sukhumwit Road. They…

  • Việt NamĐắk Nông: Lái xe đâm chết đồng nghiệp vì giành cuốc taxi
    Nguyễn Lê Việt AnhWednesday, May 6, 2020
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    Đắk Nông: Lái xe đâm chết đồng nghiệp vì giành cuốc taxi

    Tại Đắk Nông, một người tài xế rút dao đâm chết đồng nghiệp chỉ vì tranh giành cuốc taxi giá 250 ngàn đồng. Cụ thể, vào sáng 4/5, Trần Minh Tài (SN 1975, trú phường Nghĩa Phú, lái xe hãng taxi Việt Đức trên địa bàn TP Gia Nghĩa) và anh Lê Văn Đức (SN 1977, trú phường Nghĩa Phú,…

  • Covid-19 News19 new Covid-19 cases in Thailand, 1 new death (Tuesday)
    ThaigerTuesday, April 21, 2020
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    19 new Covid-19 cases in Thailand, 1 new death (Tuesday)

    Health officials today reported 19 new cases of Covid-19, bringing the national total to 2,811 patients. There has also been 1 more death, a 50 year old taxi driver whose passengers included boxing stadium spectators, raises that tally to 48. The number of new cases is fewer than the 27 recorded yesterday, and the lowest since March 14. It marks…

  • Covid-19 NewsA Bangkok hospital offers free drive-through Covid-19 tests for taxi drivers
    Sean KellyTuesday, April 7, 2020
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    A Bangkok hospital offers free drive-through Covid-19 tests for taxi drivers

    Few industries see more contact with potentially infected people than transportation services. That is why a new drive through testing system has been developed in the nation’s capital. Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi on Bangna-Trat Road has launched free drive-through Covid-19 tests for taxi drivers who live or work in Bang Na, Bang Kaew, Bang Phli, Suvarnabhumi Airport or Samut Prakan province,…

  • Covid-19 NewsTwo news cases confirmed in Thailand, pushing total to 37
    ThaigerTuesday, February 25, 2020
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    Two news cases confirmed in Thailand, pushing total to 37

    The Thai Public Health Ministry has announced two new Coronavirus cases in Thailand. A 31 year old woman and a 29 year old taxi driver. The two cases pushes the Thai confirmed Covid-19 confirmations up to a total of 37 cases since the outbreak began at the end of December last year. Permanent secretary for health, Sukhum Kanchanapimai, confirmed that…

  • Covid-19 NewsFirst human-to-human case of Coronavirus confirmed in Thailand
    ThaigerFriday, January 31, 2020
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    First human-to-human case of Coronavirus confirmed in Thailand

    Thailand health officials have confirmed the first case of human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus. The confirmed case hasn’t travelled outside of Thailand. Reuters report that the case is a Thai taxi driver, according to the deputy director-general of the Department of Disease Control, Tanarak Pipat. “The Thai person who got infected does not have the record of traveling to…

  • Transport NewsMotorcycle ‘win’ drivers charge 380 baht for 4.7 kilometre trip through Bangkok
    ThaigerSaturday, January 18, 2020
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    Motorcycle ‘win’ drivers charge 380 baht for 4.7 kilometre trip through Bangkok

    It’s not just tourists that get ripped off by the notorious Win drivers in Bangkok (The Thaiger is a regular Grab Bike user but has never had any specific problems with Win drivers). A win-motorcycle user (motorcycle taxi) has related a recent rip off on Thailand’s most popular website, Pantip. The user said they were traveling with another friend from Victory…

  • Việt NamHà Nội: Tài xế chặt chém khách Tây và cái kết
    Thaiger Việt NamThursday, November 7, 2019
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    Hà Nội: Tài xế chặt chém khách Tây và cái kết

    ẢNH: Dân trí Lợi dụng khách Tây không biết Tiếng Việt, một lái xe taxi tại Hà Nội đã hét giá gấp… 10 lần giá hiển thị trên đồng hồ cho quãng đường 5km. Cụ thể, trưa ngày 4/11, ông John Hemery (khách du lịch) bắt một chiếc taxi (số hiệu 679 – BKS 30E-85692) đi từ phố Phùng Hưng,…

  • World NewsLeave something behind? Man forgets finger in Chinese taxi after dash to hospital
    Maya TaylorThursday, November 7, 2019
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    Leave something behind? Man forgets finger in Chinese taxi after dash to hospital

    A man in China has been reunited with the severed finger he left in the back of a taxi after a mad dash to hospital in Wuhan. Thai Residents reports that the man, named only as Xu, is a construction worker who lost his finger in an accident at the site where he was working. After a local doctor told…

  • Bangkok NewsGrab driver beaten up by ‘win’ thugs in Bangkok – VIDEO
    ThaigerMonday, October 28, 2019
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    Grab driver beaten up by ‘win’ thugs in Bangkok – VIDEO

    Artit Chitnok posted a 20 second video on his Facebook page a video that showed 3 ‘win’ motorbike drivers (motorcycle taxi drivers) beating up a Grab Bike driver on the road. The incident took place on the night of October 26 under the Thonglor BTS Skytrain Station in Bangkok. The video was taken from inside a car while they were…

  • Thailand NewsRide-sharing services to be legal in Thailand by 2020
    Maya TaylorSaturday, September 7, 2019
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    Ride-sharing services to be legal in Thailand by 2020

    PHOTO: Grab Thailand’s Transport Minister says that regulatory guidelines have been drafted to pave the way for legalising ride-hailing services by March next year. Ride-hailing organisations currently operate in “legal limbo”, often finding themselves stopped and fined for not being properly registered. New guidelines will require drivers to have a public driver’s licence, vehicles to be registered and equipped with…

  • Crime NewsPolice looking for Bangkok taxi driver who stole 3.6 million baht of valuables
    ThaigerTuesday, September 3, 2019
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    Police looking for Bangkok taxi driver who stole 3.6 million baht of valuables

    FILE PHOTO Bangkok Police are hunting for a taxi driver who allegedly stole valuables valued over than 3.6 million baht from a Chinese businessman early on Sunday. Zhong Ai, a Chinese rubber exporter, told police he had been out drinking with friends in the Royal City Avenue area, and hailed a taxi to take him home at 5am. But he…

  • Road deathsKoh Samui taxi driver killed, two tourists taken to hospital
    Tanutam ThawanWednesday, August 7, 2019
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    Koh Samui taxi driver killed, two tourists taken to hospital

    PHOTO: Sanook.com Police have now filed a full report on an an incident back on July 19 when a taxi driver was killed and two tourists critically injured driving on the Khao Laem Yai Hill, Koh Samui. Sanook.com reports that a taxi, a yellow and brown Toyota Fortuner SUV, hit the footpath on the Khao Laem Yai hill in the northwest…

  • Transport NewsVan, baht bus and taxi drivers fight for passengers at Pattaya pier
    ThaigerThursday, July 18, 2019
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    Van, baht bus and taxi drivers fight for passengers at Pattaya pier

    PHOTO & VIDEO: Ruk Siam News Pattaya taxi, van and baht bus drivers, authorised and unauthorised, are fighting over tourists at the Bali Hai pier. Ruk Siam News says that efforts by the Pattaya City Council to sort out the issue at the south Pattaya port have been ineffectual and that there are often more drivers than passengers vying for…

  • Bangkok NewsMilitary escort motorcycle rider smashes into Bangkok taxi – VIDEO
    ThaigerThursday, June 27, 2019
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    Military escort motorcycle rider smashes into Bangkok taxi – VIDEO

    The shocking moment when a military officer on motorbike, escorting a high-ranking Army official travelling in a black Mercedes, collided into a Bangkok taxi, at 1.22pm yesterday. He was an officer with the Military Police. The Toyota taxi with Bangkok plates was making a right hand turn into the Khet Pom Prap Sattru Phai centre in central Bangkok. The injured…

  • Bangkok NewsTaxi drives on wrong side of the road, collides with sedan, injures two
    ThaigerMonday, June 10, 2019
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    Taxi drives on wrong side of the road, collides with sedan, injures two

    Two people have been injured after a Toyota Camry crashed into a taxi driving the wrong way along a road in Pathum Thani’s Lat Lum Kaew district, just north of Bangkok. The sedan overturned from the impact, injuring both the 38 year old driver Tamisa Pengchaem and front-seat passenger, 31 year old Amorn Yindeemak. The 42 year old taxi driver Weerachai…

  • World NewsGrab adds another layer of riding security in Malaysia. Selfies.
    ThaigerSunday, June 9, 2019
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    Grab adds another layer of riding security in Malaysia. Selfies.

    If you’ve used the e-hailing alternative ‘Grab’ you’ll know how easy it is to use as it continues to disrupt traditional taxi and tuk tuk services around the region. In Malaysia they’ve just added another level of security for users and it will be applicable for Thais or other foreigners using Grab when in Malaysia. In Malaysia it will now…

  • Bangkok NewsViolent passenger charged with attempted murder of Grab taxi driver
    ThaigerWednesday, May 8, 2019
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    Violent passenger charged with attempted murder of Grab taxi driver

    PHOTO: Pak Kred station chief Pol Col Pongjak Preechakarunpong – TNA In a follow up to yesterday’s ‘strange but true’ story of the Bangkok Grab taxi driver HERE, police have now upgraded the charges against the attacker. TNA reports that 27 year old Khampee Kleualinchee, a Grab taxi driver, was attacked with a knife after taking a call to take…

  • Bangkok NewsBKK taxi driver returns 400,000 baht to Danish tourist
    ThaigerTuesday, March 19, 2019
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    BKK taxi driver returns 400,000 baht to Danish tourist

    Usually maligned, it’s great to post a good-news story about Bangkok’s taxi drivers. A capital city cabbie is being praised after returning a bag containing 400,000 baht to a Danish tourist. T News reports that Somsri Ralat picked up the Danish tourist and his Thai wife at BKK airport and was taking them to their Hotel in Bang Yai yesterday…