Hong Kong taxi driver fined HK$1,000 for rude behaviour towards passenger

2026-02-03 - 12:28

A Hong Kong taxi driver has been fined HK$1,000 (US$128) for rude behaviour, having allegedly thrown a passenger’s change out of the window after she had asked him to slow down. Magistrate Winnie Lau Yee-wan at West Kowloon Court convicted taxi driver Lam Ching-fung of behaving rudely towards a female passenger who had booked his cab from Hong Kong International Airport to a residential complex in Hung Hom on December 7, 2024. Lam denied a summary charge of behaving “other than in a civil and...