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...next sortie, he tells the story of his last raid in February. A crew member on a Thai palm-oil tanker gave him the layout of the ship and an exact time and place to meet in the Malacca Strait. The captain contacted the boss of a Hong Kong triad who agreed to pay the captain and his crew $9,000 upfront and another $50,000 on delivery. The triad also hired a crew of bajing loncat and arranged fake papers for the ship under a new name. On the agreed night, two speedboats raced west out of Babi. After...
...Chinese authorities say they are dealing with the triad menace. Last month, police in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau conducted a week-long crackdown on gangs that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests; some 35,000 police took part in Guangdong alone. But many believe the crack-down was mainly cosmetic and will leave the criminal gangs largely unharmed...
...Suspicions that some of Taiwan's undertakers are not just second-rate gangsters, but members of the island's biggest and most notorious triad gangs, surfaced around 15 years ago when funeral companies began selling?at wholesale prices?the services of exotic dancers from clubs thought to be owned by the mafia. Did grandpa like the nightlife? Then why not hire a truckload of strippers to perform at his funeral? The business got so big that, by some estimates, guests at nearly one-third of funerals were being entertained by naked women. A number of municipalities have since cracked down...
...Patterson remembers instructing “Robbie,” as his friends call him, to play a C-major triad at the beginning of his first lesson. Then he asked him the mysteriously simple question, “What is that?” Without missing a beat, Kraft replied, “That’s the chord, that’s the chord you hear out in the world, out in nature...
Doctor Huang is a transplant specialist with a very busy calendar. In the run-up to Labor Day, the communist authorities of Shenzhen, Hong Kong's border wonderland of sin and shopping, execute an array of criminals. This year they are taking aim at violent offenders and triad gangs, and that offers Huang a bumper crop of kidneys, livers and hearts for needy patients, many from Hong Kong. Getting a kidney from death row may sound merciless, but it's swift, efficient?patients can be matched to donors in advance?and a bullet in the brain causes no damage...