{"id":4850,"date":"2018-11-28T06:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T06:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/didi-executives-fined-following-deaths-of-two-women\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T06:13:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T06:13:27","slug":"didi-executives-fined-following-deaths-of-two-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/didi-executives-fined-following-deaths-of-two-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Didi executives fined following deaths of two women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Did app\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/94BD\/production\/_101277083_hi046375663.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Reuters<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Executives at China&#8217;s ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing are being fined over the deaths of two female passengers earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>A 21-year-old woman was killed in Zhengzhou in May after using Didi&#8217;s Hitch service, which pairs up commuters heading in the same direction.<\/p>\n<p>Then in August, a 20-year-old woman was raped and murdered in Wenzhou while using the ride-hailing service. <\/p>\n<p>Both cases caused a public outcry with calls for a boycott of the service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-45480222\" class=\"story-body__link\">In September, China ordered the indefinite suspension Hitch over safety concerns<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As well as the fine, the size of which has not been made public, the transport ministry said the Hitch service should remain suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Didi Chuxing claims to be the world&#8217;s top transportation platform, with 21 million drivers and more than 450 million users. <\/p>\n<p>The firm&#8217;s investors include Japan&#8217;s SoftBank and Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Following a tough battle for customers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/36938812\" class=\"story-body__link\">Uber sold its operations in China<\/a> in 2016 in return for a stake in Didi&#8217;s business.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46367492\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters Executives at China&#8217;s ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing are being fined over the deaths of two female passengers earlier this year. A 21-year-old woman was killed in Zhengzhou in May after using Didi&#8217;s Hitch service, which pairs up commuters heading in the same direction. Then in August, a 20-year-old woman was raped and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}