taxi

blogs.wsj.com — A China Family Planning Association survey of 350 Beijing cabbies revealed that nearly 57% admitted to having problems with erectile dysfunction, according to report by the state-run Xinhua news agency. The results were discovered in a five-month project the association conducted to improve Beijing taxi drivers' sexual and reproductive health.

thepekingorder.blogspot.com — At around 05:00 this morning, police found a 21-year-old German man dead in a Beijing taxi. The car had hit a tree beside Beijing’s East Fourth Ring Road, between Siyuan Bridge and Xiaoyun Bridge. A woman lay injured on the backseat.

www.abc.net.au — An Australian man has appeared in a Hong Kong Magistrates Court charged with the murder of a taxi driver.

english.eastday.com — All buses and taxis operating in downtown areas must meet the National III emission standard or higher before the 2010 Shanghai World Expo starts, officials said yesterday while announcing details of the fourth Three-Year Environmental Protection Action Plan between 2009 and 2011.

globalvoicesonline.org — Oiwan Lam at Global Voices Online translates a campaign letter circulating to encourage participation in a Guangzhou taxi strike tomorrow - the most recent of many taxi strikes going on across the country, largely in protest of tight regulation coupled with illegal competition from "black cars".