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Two ride-hailing platforms, namely Geolah and Trans-cab Services, will begin operations in Singapore next year. They have received one-year provisional licenses that allow them to provide ride-hailing services, the city-state’s Land Transport Authority said…
Philippine regulators have launched an investigation into the alleged robbery and sexual assault of a Vietnamese woman who booked a ride using the Grab ride-hailing app. The Philippines’ Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has requested the…
Singapore-based ride-hailing company Tada will expand to Hong Kong in November with up to 4,000 vehicles as part of a collaboration with local taxi firms. “Singapore and Hong Kong share many similarities, which allows us to bring what we have learnt from our…
Air China has extended its longstanding cargo handling contracts with Worldwide Flight Services (WFS), a member of the SATS Group, in France and the United Kingdom, by a further three years. The airline has been a major customer of WFS at Paris Charles de…
Russia’s InDriver has become the latest entrant in Vietnam’s growing but fiercely competitive ride-hailing market, joining several foreign and domestic firms in the fray. Starting this month, the company is offering car and motorbike ride-hailing services in…
7-Eleven Malaysia Holding has acquired a 46.45-per-cent equity stake in local delivery firm Myinteractivelab (MSB) for US$1.8 million. According to a SEM’s spokesperson, the company entered into an agreement to accquire 490,030 shares of MSB with founder…
Uber was stripped of its London operating license on Monday for the second time in just over two years as the city’s regulator said the taxi app was not “fit and proper”, having put passenger safety at risk. A change to Uber’s systems allowed unauthorized…
Uber started testing an interesting safety feature last year that would allow its team to detect unexpected long stops or possible crashes using a smartphone’s GPS and other sensors like gyroscope and accelerometer. One year after it debuted the beta test,…
Singapore-based ride-hailing firm Grab is set to invest “several hundred million dollars” in Vietnam where the company sees its next major growth market, just weeks after it unveiled a $2 billion plan in Indonesia. The proposed investment is the latest…
Ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft can be incredibly convenient in this day and age, but unfortunately, using these services is not always 100 percent safe, as proven by multiple reports of sexual abuse in the past few years committed by improperly vetted…
The Ministry of Transport organized the meeting with other ministries, transport operators and associations to collect feedback for the eighth version of the draft decree before presenting it to the prime minister prior to April 15 as scheduled. Many…
Vietnamese ride-hailing firm FastGo plans to launch the country’s first helicopter ride-sharing service in Hanoi this month, focusing on tourism in northern provinces. CEO Nguyen Huu Tuat told that FastSky’s first flight will take off on April 25. With 12…
From an e-hailing app, Grab has made great steps forward, providing many different services. Most recently, it started the payment service GrabPay and lending service Grab Financial. The consumer lending market in South East Asia is very large. As estimated…
The ride-hailing market has seen new entrants after Uber’s departure, including Vietnamese firm FastGo, GoViet – a subsidiary of Indonesia’s Go-Jek, and the latest Aber. Aber estimates it will attract 5,000 taxi drivers and 5,000-10,000 motorbike drivers in…
FastGo, a Vietnamese ride-hailing app, plans to launch its service in Indonesia and Myanmar in December as it hopes to become one of the top companies in the field in Southeast Asia. This move abroad comes just five months after it launched in Vietnam,…
MVL says drivers will not have to pay commission, and the company will make a profit from selling data. A blockchain-powered ride-hailing app which requires no commission fee from drivers will be arriving in Vietnam this July in the wake of Uber’s departure…
