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The most important triads active in the international heroin trade are the 14K and the Big Circle Gang. Triads smuggle chemicals from Chinese factories to North America (for the production of fentanyl and methamphetamine), and to Europe for the production of MDMA. [14] [34] [35] They are increasingly involved in unlicensed cannabis cultivation ...
Y. K. Chu's Triads as Business [2] looks at the role of Hong Kong Triads in legal, illegal and international markets. Peng Wang's The Chinese Mafia [3] examines the rise of mainland Chinese organized crime and the political-criminal nexus (collusion between gangs and corrupt police officers) in reform and opening era of China.
Tongs, Gangs, and Triads: Chinese Crime Groups in North America. Boulder, Colorado: Paladin Press, 1995; Chan, Sucheng; Hsu, Madeline Y. Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture. Temple University Press, 2008; Asian Organized Crime Groups - Chinese - Tongs and Street Gangs
The reported criminal activities of the triads included the trafficking of women and children from China into Ireland, involvement in casinos, and money laundering. Gardaí also reported a great deal of interaction between the Chinese gangs operating in Ireland and Scotland. [26] The 14K has a branch in Spain, operating from Madrid. [23]
In North America, Chinese American street gangs often have connections with the tongs and triads. Examples of such street gangs include the Joe Boys and Jackson Street Boys, which are named after the major street of San Francisco's Chinatown. [3] [4] Turf wars have been common in the older Chinatowns. Gang rivalry among Chinatown gangs has ...
A Chinese actor’s kidnapping reignites fears over travelling to Southeast Asia, and renews concerns over scam centers run by criminal gangs Lionel Lim January 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Lee Tai-lung (李泰龍), a Sun Yee On boss in Tsim Sha Tsui, was murdered in front of the Kowloon Shangri-La hotel on 4 August 2009 by members of the Wo Shing Wo gang. It was supposedly a revenge attack ordered by Leung Kwok-chung, a senior member of a Wo Shing Wo crew in Tai Kok Tsui who was injured by Lee during a bar fight in July 2006 in ...
(Reuters) -Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang was removed from his post after just seven months in the job on Tuesday, bringing an end to weeks of confusion after the 57-year-old once seen as close ...