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Cabbies stop work in SW China municipality
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-19 17:32 CHONGQING -- Few cabs were seen on street in a suburban district of southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday morning, as cabbies stopped work to protest against a government plan to increase the number of taxies.
Cab drivers in the main urban zones of Chongqing took on a strike earlier this month, asking the city government to raise taxi fares, increase compressed natural gas (CNG) supplies and crack down on unlicensed cabs. Cabbies in Yongchuan District, about 60 km west of the city's downtown, did not join that strike. |