BEIJING — Didi Chuxing, China’s popular ride-sharing service, fired two senior executives and suspended a car-pooling service after the second killing of a female passenger in three months. The crime follows others that have raised questions about the company’s ability to protect women who use its services and comes at a fraught time for Didi, one of the world’s most successful start-ups. But a string of episodes in China has raised questions about its ability to protect women who use its services. The passenger, surnamed Zhao, used Hitch, the Didi car-pooling service, in the eastern city of Wenzhou on Friday. That afternoon, the Wenzhou police said on Sunday, she was raped and stabbed in the neck.

Source: New York Times August 26, 2018 11:37 UTC