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LONDON - British authorities are scrambling to understand the motives of the suspected bomber in a Liverpool taxi explosion who died in the blast, but that hasnt stopped them from quickly declaring the incident a terrorist attack.

LONDON - British police said Monday that a car explosion that killed one person and injured another Sunday outside a hospital in northwestern England was a "terrorist incident," although a precise motive remains unclear.

Thousands in Yemen have turned to motorbike taxis after the years-long civil war has deprived them of jobs, land, and homes and pushed the country to the brink of starvation. "There isnt much choice in the war," a local motorbike taxi driver laments.

SINGAPORE - All taxi and private-hire drivers must undergo weekly Covid-19 testing from Nov 1, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) told The Straits Times on Thursday (Oct 28).

A recent survey shows that most passengers are happy that Bangkok cabs have been fitted with partitions to prevent the transmission of Covid-19.

At its weekly meeting on Tuesday, the Cabinet approved a scheme to help cabbies and motorbike taxi drivers above the age of 65 who have been affected by Covid-19 lockdowns.

The auto rickshaws, called tuk-tuks, have long been an alternative means of transportation for the low-income Lebanese who cannot afford to take the taxi.

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob presided over the launch of a project to install anti-Covid partitions in Bangkok taxis on Thursday.

The “taxi graveyard” at the Boworn Taxi Cooperative in Bangkok has been turned into a vegetable garden, staff members planting veg on the vehicles’ roofs.

The Cabinet on Tuesday agreed to maintain the VAT rate at 7 per cent for another two years from October 1, 2021, to September 30, 2023. The 7 per cent rate of value-added tax will be collected on sales of goods, services, and all imports (or 6.3 per cent excluding local taxes), said government spokesperson Ratchada Thanadirek.

The Cooperative Promotion Department has tied up with several agencies to offer free parking spots as well as low-interest loans to help cabbies and taxi cooperatives survive the Covid-19 crisis.

A good Samaritan taxi driver came to the rescue of a man who collapsed on a sidewalk on Pracha Songkhro Road Soi 39 in Din Daeng district after witnesses and police were afraid to provide assistance, fearing he might be infected with Covid-19.