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Malaysia launches women-only taxis

27/11/2011 20:28:00
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Malaysia has launched a fleet of women-only taxis, an initiative that follows pink-coloured train coaches and buses aimed at shielding women from sexual harassment, reports said yesterday.
Fifty women taxi drivers have started plying greater Kuala Lumpur on an on-call basis, and the government hopes the number of special taxis will expand to 400, The Star and the New Straits Times dailies reported.
Heng Seai Kei, deputy minister for Women, Family and Community Development, was quoted as saying the taxis made travelling safer for women, as well as providing jobs for women who wanted to be taxi drivers.
“We hope it will reduce the number of rape and robbery cases involving taxi drivers and female victims,” Heng was quoted as saying.

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