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The Covid19 pandemic has hit the taxi business hard in Singapore. Empathising with the situation, a kind Transcab passenger gave her taxi driver $90 tips for a 9-minute ride which only cost $10.47. No, it was not a mistake, it was intentional.

An Ang Moh Swiss national and former commodities trader Yannick Alexandre Varidel, 28, had been sentenced to four weeks jail after he pleaded guilty punching a taxi driver. Varidel then insisted on paying the fare with his ATM card, and handed the card to Mr Ng. Mr Ng again told them that he could take only cash payments. When Mr Ng was returning the ATM card to Varidel, he accidentally dropped it. Varidel reacted by punching him on the nose.

Lina Ivy Pah, 30, was alleged to have scratched cabby Mr Yung Kok Keong, 52, causing multiple abrasions over his upper eyelid, forehead and cheeks. Mr Yung had picked up Pah and her mother at 4:45am from Geylang. Pah had been drinking beer since around midnight.

Arne Corneliussen, a Singpaore PR, had been given 10 weeks jail after he pleaded guilty to causing hurt by grabbing Chan's neck and choking him after a night of drinking. He also paid $30,000 compensation to Chan. However, after reading reports of the case, Mr Roslan Zainul and his friend Mohamed Ayub Shaik Dawood came forward and told the police that Chan's version of events was not true and that Chan, and not Mr Corneliussen, was the aggressor. Corneliussen had already served half his sentence, and subsequently re-tried and fined $2,000 after he was convicted of causing hurt by wrapping his arm around the cabby's neck. As for the cabby, he was jailed 18 months for lying and punching Corneliussen. When the case first came out, vitriol were poured into the direction of the Singapore PR, just for the fact that he was not a Singaporean, and that he was perceived to have beaten up an honest, hardworking cabby. Now that the truth is out, would all those who slammed the Caucasian man come out and apologise?

Remember the Mr Singapore World 2010, who was mocked for his poor diction in a self-introduction video when he represented the country? Hu Hanxiong, now 31, was jailed for three months yesterday after pleading guilty to causing grievous hurt to a cabby by performing a rash act. The attack was so vicious that the cabby ended up with a permanent scar on his forehead, scalp and face, with nerve damage.

Hi all cabbies out there, another taxi driver has been beaten up by a malay guy yesterday at Holland Blk 1 because the driver did not allow passengers to consume beer in the taxi.