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Vietnam's HCM City sacks 642 taxi drivers

Xinhua, January 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Taxi companies in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City dismissed 642 drivers in 2015, mainly because they used drugs, or cheated on charging customers, the Ho Chi Minh City Taxi Association said Thursday.

The taxi firms also handed down lighter punishments on nearly 2,900 other drivers last year, the association said, noting that they violated their firms' regulations.

In 2015, taxi companies in the city commended and rewarded 8,027 drivers because they gave back their customers' assets left in their cars. Specifically, 17 drivers were given certificates of merit by the municipal authorities, because each of them gave back assets worth more than 1 billion Vietnamese dong (44,400 U.S. dollars), or participated in arresting thieves and robbers.

Ho Chi Minh City currently has nearly 10,700 taxis, according to the municipal Transport Department. They served some 240 million turns of passengers last year, accounting for about 40 percent of the total number of passengers using public transport in the city. Enditem