Today Sous Thy runs a motorcycle taxi about an hour's drive outside of the city.

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In Wamena, a sprawling town in the highlands, it is wise to take a bicycle rickshaw, not a motorcycle taxi.

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While most motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok hail from rural northern Thailand, the ladies who drive the motorcycles on Ko Kret are almost all locals.

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Once at Pakret, follow the crowds to the main road and take a motorcycle taxi to the Wat Sanam Neua temple (24 Moo 3 Chaengwattana Road), a short 10-baht ride away.

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You can hire a motorcycle taxi for 50 baht per hour or, if you can bear cycling in the heat, a basic bicycle will cost 40 baht per day.

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On May 18, Tun Bun- Ly, the 39-year-old editor of the opposition newspaper Odom Katek Khmer (Khmer Ideal), was riding a motorcycle-taxi to his office when another vehicle pulled alongside.

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In London, 50% - or 2 million - of the population used public transport to get to work, compared with 31% - 1.3 million - travelling by car, motorcycle or taxi.

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