Results tagged “triads”

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

Tom Miller of the SCMP has been the center of many heated online discussions of late as a result of his article last Friday on bar owners in Sanlitun being asked to deny service to black patrons. What looked like an attempt to add credibility to his anonymous claims, he followed up with an article on Saturday claiming another anonymous source, this time a police officer, who denied that bars were instructed to deny service to patrons of African descent. His article though, still maintained that:

...another bar owner had been verbally warned by Public Security Bureau officers not to serve customers of Mongolian and African descent, while other bars had been ordered to sign chopped pledges to keep to curfews, not allow the illegal sale of drugs, and refuse certain customers.

Two weeks ago, when we told you that China's new labour law was going to be a big, big thing, we had no idea it would also be the cause of some serious blood-letting. Local gangs and triads have been attacking the Shenzhen Dagongzhe Migrant Worker Centre which has been instrumental in providing legal advice for rural migrant workers and informing them about their rights under the new labour law. In separate attacks, they shattered...

Hong Kong Triad T-Shirt Gets Fashion Label in Hot Water [Asiaone.com] The arrest of 18 employees of a Hong Kong lifestyle and retail chain over a controversial new line of T-shirts '14K' bearing the name of a well-known triad gang spurred an apology from the store's founder.Pakistan - Besieged Musharraf plays for time [Asia Times] Having opened a can of worms by declaring a state of emergency, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf is now in...