Urban Mobility
Riding Pink, Malaysia’s first women’s only transportation platform and Bosch Automotive Aftermarket (AA) announced a joint promotion to give away free rides this Raya holidays to 10 lucky female Malaysians celebrating Hari Raya. The Contest 3 easy steps to join the Riding Pink Raya Free Ride contest: Post your best Raya family portrait on Riding Pink’s Facebook facebook.com/ridingpink. Caption
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Last week, Malaysians pondered a question: is a Muslim female takes a ride-sharing service with a male driver, does that constitute khalwat? Khalwat means close proximity between a male and female who are not forbidden by blood ties from marrying. Such situations are forbidden and are often the subject of enforcement raids by Malaysian religious authorities. The Federal Territories’ Mufti office took
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The Malaysian government is providing a swathe of incentives to encourage more people to drive for ride-sharing services, effectively backing what remains, technically, an illegal activity by law. As the Malaysian prime minister tabled Budget 2017 in end-October, one thing became clear: ride-sharing is here to stay in the nation. The question now is whether big local corporates will take the government’s
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Since ride-sharing took the world by storm years ago, the issue of safety has been a critical point of debate. In essence, both driver and passenger are vulnerable to malicious intent from each other, but the risk is arguably skewed to being higher for the passenger side. Read Livemint Opinion – Gender Sustainable Transport Urban Planning This is especially true for
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