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Recycled bikes get Myanmar kids to school
AFP, Published on 20/06/2019
» YANGON: The clangour of bells in the air, Myanmar children race home from school on recycled bikes shipped from Singapore and Malaysia, donated to give them easier access to education in a nation where more than half live in poverty.
Myanmar entrepreneur buys unused bicycles for poor children
Published on 05/06/2019
» SINGAPORE: When bicycle-sharing company oBike pulled out of Singapore abruptly last year, leaving the city with unattended bicycles rusting away in parks and public spaces, Myanmar entrepreneur Mike Than Tun Win saw the perfect opportunity to turn trash into treasure.
Dockless bikes: Eco-revolution or public 'parasite'?
Published on 19/11/2018
» When high-tech bicycle rental scheme Mobike dropped hundreds of its distinctive orange and silver bikes across the northern English city of Manchester, it promised a cheap, flexible and low-carbon way to travel.
Singapore will ban shared-bike users caught parking indiscriminately
Published on 20/03/2018
» SINGAPORE: Users caught for parking their shared bicycles indiscriminately more than three times in a year will be banned temporarily from renting from all bike-sharing operators, following amendments made to the Parking Places Act passed on Tuesday.
Wheels come off Gobee.bike hire service in France
AFP, Published on 25/02/2018
» PARIS - People wanting to get on their bikes in France have one option less to do so after the Gobee.bike hire service said Saturday it was closing following a welter of thefts and vandalism.
Mobike, oBike, Ofo grind gears for Thais
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 31/08/2017
» Thailand has become a new battlefield for bicycle-sharing services with the world's three largest providers keen to offer their services here.