Car-pooling services such as Hitch pair up people moving in the same direction so they can share travelling costs. Didi Chuxing, used by hundreds of millions in China, came under intense criticism last month after a 20-year-old female passenger was raped and murdered by her Hitch driver in the eastern city of Wenzhou. Didi Chuxing was already under the gun after police said in May that a Hitch driver killed a 21-year-old female flight attendant whom he had picked up. Didi Chuxing muscled Uber out of China in 2016 after a bruising turf battle. A Didi Chuxing spokesperson told AFP the company had no new comment on the government-ordered safety drive.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 11, 2018 05:48 UTC