Hong Kong taxi association threatens strike in effort to pressure government to approve fare increase

Some 3,000 taxi drivers are threatening industrial action next week in an effort to pressure the government into giving the green light to a long-sought fare increase of over 20 per cent, an association representing the city’s cabbies has said.

Chau Kwok-keung, chairman of the Hong Kong Taxi and Public Light Bus Association, told the Post the city’s drivers might escalate their action if the government kept ignoring their requests for the fare rise.