Motorbike taxi drivers in a Philippine town have come up with an ingenious way of keeping passengers dry in the perennial floods. As pedestrians wade waist-deep on flooded streets in Hagonoy, passengers ride high in specially modified moto-taxi sidecars.

A man who was pretending to be a police inspector named "Jo" has been arrested along with a female accomplice for allegedly extorting money from motorbike taxies around Esplanade Cineplex Ratchadapisek in Bangkok.