A top minister slammed Malaysia's taxi drivers Wednesday, saying they were more of a problem for the tourism industry than the nation's notoriously filthy toilets.
"The complaints by tourists about the taxi drivers' behavior are more than toilets now, so in that context the taxi drivers are worse than dirty toilets," cabinet minister Nazri Aziz said.
"People are complaining about the taxi drivers overcharging, being impolite, and not using their meters, forcing the tourists to bargain with them," he told AFP.
"This is the third-world taxi driver mentality. Even in China now, taxi drivers can no longer (haggle), they just have to take the passengers, no questions asked.
"It's not that all taxi drivers behave like that, it's just a small group of them but that is already giving Malaysia a bad name," said Nazri, who is minister in the prime minister's department.
More here in News ArticeI think the same attitude is here in the Philippines, and it is getting worse here every day..