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Since the new century, there are two academic books focusing on Chinese organized crime. Based on rich empirical work, these books offer how Chinese criminal organizations survive in the changing socio-economic and political environment. Y. K. Chu's Triads as Business [2] looks at the role of Hong Kong Triads in legal, illegal and international ...
A triad (traditional Chinese: 三合會; simplified Chinese: 三合会; Jyutping: saam1 hap6 wui6; Cantonese Yale: sāam hahp wúi; pinyin: sān hé huì) is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.
The main antagonists in the 1998 movie Lethal Weapon 4 are members of a snakehead gang which is found to be smuggling Chinese people into the United States and exploiting them. Mister Negative , a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics , usually depicted as an enemy of Spider-Man , the Punisher , Shang-Chi ...
Ah Kong (Chinese: 阿公) was an organised crime and drugs syndicate that used to extensively control the European heroin trade in the 1970s to 1990s. Originating from Singapore, it was one of the world's largest drug syndicates, having been mainly based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Bangkok, Thailand, where they received their drug supplies.
The 14K (十四K sap sei kei, [sap̚sɛjkɛj]) is a triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally. It is the second largest triad group in the world with around 20,000 members split into thirty subgroups.
The Big Circle Boys would sell the heroin at a markup to Chinese or Vietnamese street gangs who performed the most dangerous and least profitable part of the drug trade. [7] Kon Yu-lueng, aka "Johnny Kon", a Big Circle Boy based in New City city was described by the Drug Enforcement Agency as "probably one of the two or three biggest heroin ...
For years the "four families" ruled a town notorious for scam centres in Myanmar - their end was swift.
The Black Dragons (Chinese: 黑龍; Jyutping: Haak 1 Lung 4) was a Chinese-American criminal organization and street gang that was formed in 1980 by Chinese immigrants in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California. It was started by a group of young men who banded together to protect themselves from other Asian and Latino gangs.