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In 2011, he was fielded by the People's Action Party (PAP) as part of a four-member team to contest in Moulmein–Kallang GRC. The PAP team won 58.56% of the vote against the Workers' Party (WP) and Tong was elected a Member of Parliament representing the Jalan Besar division. He was Deputy Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee ...
The current MPs are Seah Kian Peng, Fahmi Aliman, Edwin Tong, ... PAP: Seah Kian Peng Fatimah Lateef Edwin Tong Tan Chuan Jin Goh Chok Tong: 84,939: 64.07%: 7.42% WP:
The Wah Ching (Youth of China) was founded in 1964 mainly by immigrants from Hong Kong and China working at Hop Sing Tong gambling establishments in San Francisco's Chinatown. The gang was first formed as a protection group from the ABCs (American born Chinese) and later evolved into a criminal gang. [ 1 ]
Ding, 38, a Chinese national, was charged by a federal grand jury in San Francisco with seven counts each of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. Each economic espionage charge carries a ...
The Tong Wars were a series of violent disputes beginning in the late 19th century among rival Chinese Tong factions centered in the Chinatowns of various American cities, in particular San Francisco. Tong wars could be triggered by a variety of inter-gang grievances, from the public besmirching of another Tong's honor, to failure to make full ...
On Monday the culture, community and youth minister Edwin Tong told Parliament the leaked figures are “not accurate" adding the real price is "not anywhere as high as speculated.”
The vast majority of Chinese in California were from various districts on the west side of the Pearl River Delta, in Guangdong province. Thus, the first huiguan, or ui-kun, as it was locally known [12] in Cantonese San Francisco, the Sam Yap (Chinese: 三邑; pinyin: sānyì; Jyutping: sam1 jap1; lit. 'Three counties') Company, emerged in 1851.
Edwin M. Lee, former city manager & mayor of San Francisco, California, United States; Eric Chang, politician, Belize; Geng Tan, MP of Don Valley North, Canada; Grace Meng, US Representative from New York, United States; Hiram L. Fong, former US Senator from Hawaii, United States; Jim Chu, Chief Constable of the Vancouver Police Department, Canada