The US Department of State is reportedly considering cutting a large chunk of its 1.3-billion-USD military aid to Egypt over the death of an American taxi driver in a Cairo prison in January. Mustafa Kassem, a 54-year-old Egyptian-American cab driver, reportedly died of heart failure on 13th January while on…
AsiaWire A Chinese cabbie who kidnapped a schoolgirl and kept her as a sex slave in his hidden dungeon for nearly a month has been sentenced to death. Long Xihe, who is reportedly in his 50s, was sentenced to death by the Xiangxi Intermediate People’s Court in China’s central province…
Newsflash/@megapolisonline This is the moment a fare-dodging passenger pepper sprays an unsuspecting cab driver over a 1-GBP fare before fleeing. The incident took place in the Primorsky District of Russia’s second city, St Petersburg, in north-western Russia. According to local media, the passenger called and taxi and was taken to…
Newsflash/Storyteller This is the moment a racist Egyptian cabbie dumps an Asian tourist in the middle of a busy motorway after a fellow taxi driver claimed the passenger probably had COVID-19 and told him to eject him from the vehicle. In the footage, filmed in an unspecified location in Egypt,…
Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor: Alex Cope, Agency: Asia Wire Report Video Credit: AsiaWire This footage shows a concerned Chinese cabbie driving a passenger while wearing a full decontamination suit complete with goggles and a surgical mask. Video taken by an unnamed female passenger in China’s capital city of Beijing shows her panning around…
