Holy crap, in case you doubted for a second that Hong Kong triads were still scary as heck - a senior triad boss was knocked down yesterday and hacked to death right outside the 5-star Shangri-La hotel in Kowloon on Tuesday. The victim, Lee Tai-lung, was hit by the car when he stepped out of his Mercedes, according to reports. Three knifemen then got out and slashed at him, inflicting "serious chop wounds to his arms." They fled the scene immediately and two burnt-out cars, believed to be linked to the attack, were discovered a few hours later. The Hong Kong police's anti-triad unit is now investigating. Source: AFP more ›

Guess where you could be exactly a week from now? Drinking with us at Shanghaiist's first happy hour of the year! Assuming the weather gods decide to bless us with as sunny a Tuesday as today was, we'll all be hanging outdoors, chatting and listening to great (if we may say so ourselves) music at Cotton's Xinhua Lu location. more ›