Asked if police had colluded with triads at the station, Lo said the force had no connections to triads.
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Asked by a reporter if police had colluded with triads at the station, Lo said the force had no links to triads.
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Asked by a reporter if police had colluded with triads at the station, Lo said the force had no connections to triads.
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"All the crime committed by Triads is for money," Lo said.
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In fact, our adversaries are modernizing every aspect of their nuclear triads.
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They were widely believed to have been members of criminal gangs, the triads.
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I was told that the Triads pushed them out of Toronto, but who knows.
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No composer reclaimed triads more brazenly than Olivier Messiaen, the devoutly Catholic French master.
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According to the anti-communist Apple Daily, mainland agents hired local triads to abduct Xiao.
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He also accused officers of cooperating with local gangs, which are collectively known as Triads.
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Police said that some of those arrested have connections with organized crime groups, or triads.
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Moreover, vees and triads are just a couple of the many forms poly relationships can take.
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The triads control certain neighborhoods in the city and are believed to have strong political influence.
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Triads now are reluctant to risk dealing in the waning heroin trade, which carries harsh penalties.
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Lam said the police action had failed to protect the public, allowing the triads to run rampant.
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During the 2014 Umbrella Revolution, police arrested 19 individuals, some with links to triads, for inciting violence.
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"They deliberately turned a blind eye to these attacks by triads on regular citizens," he told Reuters.
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They later made several arrests and said the assailants had links to organized criminal gangs, or triads.
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He harps too much on simplistic sequences; the ears tire of melodramatic augmented triads in the orchestra.
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The bloodshed in Yuen Long was widely blamed on members of Hong Kong's criminal underworld, known as triads.
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And up until the 1980s, triads profited from the illicit trade of silver coins out of mainland China.
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For triads, the pens help to evade an important regulation at wholesale fish markets—government permits to sell.
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While there are certainly a lot of triads in the polyamorous community, that's not necessarily the most common arrangement.
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There were no clear motives for thugs and triads to engage in such risky behaviour unless they were mobilised.
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" Other pro-democracy lawmakers were more direct, with a group of activists calling the police "servants of the triads.
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"The situation in Yeun Long when the triads were unleashed was an attempt to intimidate" the protesters, said Fowler.
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A century ago, Hong Kong had hundreds of triads, their numbers lifted by waves of immigration from mainland China.
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A century ago, Hong Kong had hundreds of triads, their numbers lifted by waves of immigration from mainland China.
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Unlike America, this did not come from Italian mafia organizations, but from Chinese Triads working out of Hong Kong.
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Centinel is mostly dedicated to tracking down triads, which is how Wong and Herbert spent nearly their entire careers.
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From the 1970s to 1990s, triads famously made their money from trading firearms in and out of Hong Kong.
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Even Hong Kong's triads appear to be called upon for patriotic service—for instance, countering the Umbrella protests with violence.
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Pro-China legislator Junius Ho was filmed shaking hands and thanking the triads for their hard work at the scene.
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Drugmakers probably rely on UWSA's connections with organised-crime groups abroad, like China's triads, Japan's yakuza and Australia's motorbike gangs.
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"We deliberately put these tools together to go after really bad people—organized crime, terrorists, dictators, Chinese Triads," Sharma says.
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In the 1990s, the North's cash-poor government began manufacturing meth for export to the Chinese triads and Japanese yakuza.
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As in last month's attack by suspected triads on protesters in Yuen Long, many of the attackers wore white T-shirts.
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ECM's catalogue of some sixteen hundred albums contains abrasive sounds as well as soothing ones, clouds of dissonance alongside shimmering triads.
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Pro-democracy activists said they suspected triads (organised criminal gangs) were behind the violence and accused police of being slow to respond.
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Criminal gangs known as triads, which are known to operate in Macau, are typically involved in extortion, money laundering, murder and prostitution.
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Their motives are still under investigation but police said some of those arrested had links to local criminal gangs known as Triads.
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You'll see on the streets here in Toronto that most of the shootings and crime happens from [Haitian/Jamaican gangs and Triads].
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And, much like the limey hooligans of Baileys, the Triads ended up knocked out in a back alley, soaked in dog's piss.
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He [also set up] five characters that were connected to the North Korean meth operation, including the middle man to the Triads.
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Many believed the attackers were affiliated with the notorious triads, Hong Kong's mafia-like gangs that often do the bidding of Beijing.
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Adapting to Hong Kong's economic miracle of glittering high-rises, developed social services, and undeniable safety, triads now participate in softer crimes.
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"The police, who are like the servants of triads, have completely lost the public's trust, forcing people to defend themselves," read the statement.
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About a dozen men have been arrested in connection with that attack, some of whom have links to organized crime groups, or triads.
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About a dozen men have been arrested in connection with the attack, some of whom have links to organized crime groups, or triads.
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Three-leaf clovers featured prominently in ancient Celtic rituals and folklore (triads and the number three were considered spiritually significant back then, too).
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They have since arrested 12 men in connection with the attack, including some accused of having connections with the gangs known as triads.
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At the same time, he began producing geometric works that he called triads and quadrants, whose dazzling, kaleidoscopic colors verged on Op Art.
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Hong Kong's streets are safer, with fewer murders by the fierce crime organizations known as triads that figured in so many kung fu films.
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"There's evidence to suggest that major transnational syndicates such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Triads have been active in the Philippines," he said.
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Woody rustled up fighters from his gym, and cooks from the restaurant, to go looking for the Triads who were shaking down the hood.
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That number includes Hong Kong's mafia-like triads, who have taken the party's side and used staves to beat and threaten pro-democracy protesters.
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Separately, Ho was involved in a controversy in July after he was filmed shaking hands with alleged triads who attacked protesters in Yuen Long.
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Modern-day triads have always thrived on illicit trade, but the nature of that trade, like their structure, has changed dramatically, according to Centinel.
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Even during the Cold War, it was the least likely attack once the both the United States and the Soviet Union fielded their respective triads.
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The only way to stop the evolution of today's triads, Wong said, is early intervention—getting help for the adolescents who are susceptible to recruitment.
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For example, the theme associated with the Cafe Momus, where the bohemians hang out, is built from a few parallel triads that dip and rise ebulliently.
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Group sex has been around for thousands of years — even that famous Sex and The City episode about triads aired (wait for it) 19 years ago.
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"You're criticizing my friends, saying we're all radicals, saying we're criminal triads," he says, voice raised, as an older relative gestures for him to sit down.
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Some non-Chinese residents including those from South Asia have been recruited in the past by the city's organised criminal gangs, or triads, to attack individuals.
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And in Denmark composers who had assembled under the banner "New Simplicity" treated major and minor triads as found objects—beautiful debris amid the sonic ruins.
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Inspector Kwan ("the genius detective") solves each crime — from domestic murders to turf wars among organized crime triads — by applying his superior powers of deductive reasoning.
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Finished meth was typically sent across the northern border into China, or handed off at sea to criminal organizations like Chinese triads or the Japanese yakuza.
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"They deliberately turned a blind eye to these attacks by triads on regular citizens," he told Reuters, saying the floors of the station were streaked with blood.
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"If he didn't say this, the violence wouldn't have happened, and the triads wouldn't have beaten people," he told Reuters in his office close to the station.
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It's so fascinating to consider why minor and dissonant notes give us instinctual chills, like the TRITONE, while "victorious known triads" make us feel cozy and safe.
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He got into the meth business, working through Chinese triads to buy meth by the ton out of North Korea, where it's state-sponsored manufacturing of methamphetamine.
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Because the requirement for a permit mostly prevents triads from selling at fish markets, they've adapted by keeping their fish in these hidden, open-water pens, instead.
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Centinel calculates this operation alone costs triads up to $300 million a year, and it's estimated one in every three cigarettes smoked in Hong Kong is smuggled.
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The 3,000 acres of brownfield sites in the New Territories also belong to the Kuk, and fall mostly under the control of Chinese crime syndicates known as triads.
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But unbeknownst to Max, me, and a lot of other amateur nak muay in London circa 1991-2, there was a big problem with Triads in Manchester's Chinatown.
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For instance, some people online have speculated that criminal gangs, known in Hong Kong as triads, had hired members of ethnic minorities to attack protesters in Yuen Long.
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Some triads, especially those operating in the Yuen Long area, became close to the Hong Kong ruling class after Britain handed the city over to China in 1997.
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Some triads, especially those operating in the Yuen Long area, became close to the Hong Kong ruling class after Britain handed the city over to China in 1997.
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Sadovy's also found another major loophole that fishing vessels, working for triads, take advantage of to smuggle fish into Hong Kong—large, floating pens in the open sea.
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Lam said it took police more than an hour to arrive after he alerted them and they had failed to protect the public, allowing the triads to run rampant.
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Police said the operation was part of a six-month crackdown against triads and organised crime in Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong ahead of the visit by state leaders.
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An application for a protest on Saturday in Yuen Long was rejected by police, but a sizeable turnout is still expected amid fears of clashes between triads and activists.
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On Tuesday, the country's police chief told a Senate hearing that China, Taiwan and Hong Kong were major sources of illegal drugs, and Chinese triads were involved in trafficking.
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The vocal line with its stentorian triads and insistent repetitions would be easy enough to transcribe, but the unhinged sternness of Mr. Eastman's delivery might be hard to replicate.
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The protesters' language, too, has become much harsher; "dogs" and "triads" — a reference to Hong Kong's feared criminal syndicates — are among the few printable epithets used against the police.
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Polyamory can take many different forms, from triads, where three people all date each other monogamously, to entire webs of people dating each other openly and without rigid boundaries.
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He added that the trade is so well set up in Hong Kong, illicit cigarettes are mostly only sold by triads through recommendations—reducing the risk of getting caught.
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For instance, viewers of You Me Her might walk away thinking that all poly relationships are "thruples" or triads in which three people are romantically involved at the same time.
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" Lam Cheuk-ting, the lawmaker injured in the attack, asked reporters: "Is Hong Kong now allowing triads to do what they want, beating up people on the street with weapons?
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"What I've found in working with poly families and triads is this: The more people who are involved in any relationship dynamic, it obviously becomes more complicated," Jorja told me.
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In the new novel, they involve gambling, a natty Rwandan Hutu gangster who lost one leg to the Tutsi, Chinese triads, money-laundering, human trafficking and a whole lot more.
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"They deliberately let the triads beat up protesters to get revenge on us ... We're here to teach them a lesson," said one protester Kevin, shouting an obscenity outside a police station.
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Injured demonstrators speculated their attackers may have been associated with the triads, criminal organizations with branches in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan as well as mainland China, according to the Times.
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But you'd think that the show would have avoided the casual Orientalism of its depiction of Chinatown, which begins with a lion dance and firecrackers and progresses to hatchet-wielding triads.
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Today, the wildly metropolitan city is making life for triads a challenge—especially, because the traditional makeup of triad structure was fiercely centralized, and the syndicates thrived from recruiting disenfranchised youth.
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"The police's lack of response on July 21 had made people suspect the government colluded with triads," wrote a group of 235 civil servants from 44 government departments, including the police force.
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Police are still investigating the motive for the attack, Chan said, without providing further details on the alleged links to the triads, which refer to powerful organized crime syndicates in Hong Kong.
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Shootings have been rare in recent years, although Hong Kong has in the past seen a spate of bloody armed robberies and shootouts between organized criminal gangs, or triads, and the police.
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The police have since arrested 12 men suspected of participating in the attacks, including nine with connections to triads, the organized crime groups who are thought to have carried out the violence.
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The police have since arrested 12 men suspected of participating in the attacks, including nine with connections to triads, the organized crime groups who are thought to have carried out the violence.
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And while the techniques used to track Chinese crime organizations—called triads—have likewise evolved, the question is whether those methods will ever be able to fully catch up with the crime groups.
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"We will investigate whether we were inefficient but we are not related to triads," he said, claiming his force had been tied up policing the mass demonstration on Hong Kong island, an hour away.
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In Yuen Long, the scene of a brutal attack on protesters by suspected triads last month, a driver got into an argument with protesters before ramming his van through a roadblock, injuring one demonstrator.
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From the biggest biker gangs to the triads to various mafias to rag-tag teams of criminals, Dubro has documented the most bloody and brutal parts of Canadian criminal history for the last 42 years.
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READ: Pro-Beijing thugs are vandalizing Lennon Walls in Australia now The controversial lawmaker applauded a mob of suspected triads who in July attacked demonstrators, in one of the most violent known episodes so far.
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No longer introducing English soccer hooligans (or Chinese Triads) to Muay Thai, these days the sprightly and youthful 62-year-old is a roving ambassador of the sporting Martial Art with an alphabet soup of honors.
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What begins as a simple quest to learn what happened to her ends up leading him to expose dark secrets in a sleepy Hiroshima town while battling rival yakuza, Korean mafia, and Chinese triads along the way.
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Following an attack on protesters by a baton-wielding mob in Yuen Long subway station on July 21, which left 45 injured, police arrested six men, some of whom had links to crime gangs known as triads.
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The area is known for smuggling, both of goods and people, while decades of police operations to combat triads, which operate on both sides of the border, have failed to stamp out organized crime in the area.
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While Hong Kong's triads - ancient secret societies that morphed into mafia-style underworld operations - no longer hold the high profile of previous decades they remain entrenched in some grittier districts and in rural areas, according to police.
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The arrests highlighted how organized gangs, known as triads in Hong Kong, are believed to wield control over the local sex industry, which often relies on women from mainland China and other countries to fuel the trade.
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"The Snow Queen," like prior Abrahamsen works, has textures that shine and dance before the ears, with strings issuing harmonics high in their range, brass rumbling in the lower registers, and blurred triads in the middle range.
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Hong Kong lawmakers accused their own government of colluding with a violent mob of suspected pro-Beijing triads who brutally attacked peaceful protesters Sunday, in the most violent incident since protests began in the city seven weeks ago.
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The enemy, communist China and its puppet government headed by Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who represent dictatorship and the winners of a highly unequal society, have been struggling to tame a defiant young generation using the police and triads.
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I remember my parents talking about this a lot: triads would come and fill up the whole restaurant when it opened, one person to a table, and drink a single soda, all day for weeks until protection money was paid.
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While the vast majority of the incidents named on the site were carried out by pro-democracy protesters, rewards were also offered for information on a mob attacks carried out by suspected pro-Beijing triads in Yuen Long last month.
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"There will be continuous suppression on the Hong Kong independence movement, but the movement will grow stronger and stronger," said Baggio Leung, an independence leader who said several of his members had been harassed by purported "triads" or gangsters, before the march.
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The Mars of Thin Air has little in common with Bezos-Musk visions of human exploration, or even Kim Stanley Robinson's eco-concern; it's a planet of greed and graft, from the triads of the Gash to the entropy of the Uplands.
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"Preparing for the island handover to China in 1997, the Beijing government was worried that Triads societies, and in particular the most powerful Sun Yee On Triad, would side with liberal political activists and destabilize post-1997 Hong Kong," Varese and Wong said.
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Through trial and error, he stumbled onto triads, later reading up on progressions and learning the importance of the clave, the five-beat pattern that provides the foundation for a range of Afro-Cuban styles including the mambo and the cha-cha.
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Ide writes about the hostility among ethnic groups — notably black gangs and Chinese triads (whose members' affectation of American gang habits comes in for some mockery, though their toughness does not) — in ways that would be offensive if they weren't equal-opportunity insults.
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Indeed, both leaders know that they have to swiftly move beyond the problems of bilateral trade and investments if they want to — as they must — come to terms with acute issues of war and peace between competitors whose nuclear triads are pointed at each other.
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But it is another nuanced look at the way that triads of women engage with one another over long periods of time — and how, particularly in the rat race of New York City, the successes of others often serve to highlight your own shortcomings.
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Centinel has also found that triads are accessing large company databases for private data to sell or abuse, or financial data to exploit—Herbert and Wong said there are billions of dollars at stake, and have been beefing up Centinel to move into computer forensics.
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The members include the three biggest Hong Kong and Macau triads, who spent much of the 1990s in open warfare: 303K, Wo Shing Wo and Sun Yee On. The other two are the Big Circle Gang, Tse's original triad, and the Bamboo Union, based in Taiwan.
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According to the BBC, researchers found that triad members had been paid to attack demonstrators during that movement: Triads "might have found a new role as enforcer of unpopular policies and repression of democratic protests in the context of a drift towards authoritarianism in Hong Kong", the report concludes.
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The city is no stranger to those looking to make a quick buck by skirting the law, whether it was the pirates who roamed the South China Sea in the 16th century or the Triads who spread their tentacles following Chinese Civil War, while the city was still under British control.
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The wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, caught up in shady happenings during a night shift working security in a parking garage, Matt is at first a hapless weakling who somehow finds the strength to go up against, explicitly or otherwise, what is, essentially, the local triads.
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Effy Blue, a relationship coach in Brooklyn, works with all of the following: triads, or three people in a committed relationship together; individuals seeking to transparently date multiple lovers simultaneously; partners who each have intimate friends, all of whom are close; and clients cultivating long-term relationships with someone who already has a primary partner.
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Effy Blue, a relationship coach in Brooklyn, works with all of the following: triads, or three people in a committed relationship together; individuals seeking to transparently date multiple lovers simultaneously; partners who each have intimate friends, all of whom are close; and clients cultivating long-term relationships with someone who already has a primary partner.
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Buying land and buildings, hurdling regulations and dealing with the Education Department introduced her to Hong Kong's subculture of corruption, in which the ba wong, or triads, extorted protection money from every hut-dweller and even from street hawkers; in which everyone expected backhanders; and where the police were up to theirkhaki shorts in the narcotics trade.
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In the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, some gangs were involved in smuggling democracy leaders out of China, but following this in the years up to the 1997 Hong Kong handover, Beijing embarked on a "deliberate strategy to woo the Triads into the pro-Beijing camp," which included granting business opportunities to leaders in exchange for support in Hong Kong.
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