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	ooBdoo
		Triads also have associations with local Chinese street gangs such as the Jackson Street Boys (San Francisco), which operate in areas with large Chinese populations.
		In the United States, 14k Triad street gangs are growing in numbers and growing to prominence in Asian American societies, even as equals to the Italian Mafia Families.
		Even though most gangs and triads act independently (of one another), their attempt to pretend that they are "the invisible yet invincible" has made the police's work much harder by forcing their victims into silence.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Triad (5450 words)

	Hongkong: Triaden
		Triad societies have traditions and exotic rituals dating back to the early days of the Hung clan in the 18th century.
		Triads want their members to have the qualities of Lord Guan, most importantly, righteousness and to make contribution to the society especially when their people are under threat of a harsh repression.
		A common ritual execution in triad to a disgraced member is slashing with a bladed weapon a hundred times on the body, but no instantly lethal cuts are inflicted.
	www.payer.de /arbeitkapital/arbeitkapital030604.htm (4530 words)

	14K Triad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 14K Triad (十四K) was reportedly the largest Triad gang worldwide in the mid-1990s.
		The next year, a gunman believed to be connected to the local 14K triad killed a Portuguese prison officer and wounded another at a sidewalk café in Macau.
		Since the crackdown in Macau, the 14K triad resurfaced in North American cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/14K_Triad (326 words)

	Triad - China-related Topics TQ-TT - China-Related Topics
		The name "triad" was coined by the United KingdomBritish authorities in Hong Kong, referring to the triangular shape of the Chinese languageChinese character for "secret society".
		Even the triad leaders themselves are unsure of the exact number of their members.
		Triad societies have traditions and exotic rituals dating back to the days they were first born in the 18th century.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Triad (3606 words)

	The Illuminated Lantern: Triads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Triad origin mythology holds that when they recruited thousands of people to their cause, including Sun Yat-Sen, the Qing Dynasty was finally defeated.
		Triad members do not typically have to secure permission from the head of a triad in order to engage in a criminal activity, even if the activity involves partnering with people who are not members of the triad or are even in fact members of a different triad.
		Triad criminal activity includes but is not limited to street-level crime like gambling, extortion, and prostitution, and international activities such as narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting, and smuggling goods and people.
	www.illuminatedlantern.com /cinema/archives/triads.php (4068 words)

	Canada Riddled With Gangs, Organized Crime
		Although individual triad members reportedly are involved in trafficking heroin to the United States through Canada, the triads as organizations do not control the trade.
		Triad membership is more a prerequisite for sellers to gain permission to sell drugs at the street level.
		It is not uncommon for a member of one triad to team up with another triad member and work for the leader of a heroin smuggling group who is not a member of any triad at all.
	www.rense.com /general47/canadariddledwithgangs.htm (2954 words)

	Triad article Page 1
		The term "triad" was first used "by British authorities in Hong Kong as a reference to the triangular shape of the Chinese character for 'secret society.'" (Bolz 147) These modern day secret societies are changing the face of organized crime, as the American knows it.
		The triads also developed highly ritualized initiation ceremonies meant to instill a strong sense of secrecy, and more importantly, loyalty to other triad members.
		The 14K also have a conspicuous presence in Taiwan that "was established by a Kuomintang general and still has ties to the Kuomintang Party." (US Hearings 93) It additionally has associates all throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Far East.
	www.geocities.com /leixiaojie/Triads (1782 words)

	Asian Organised Crime - Australian Parliamentary Inquiry
		The existence of triads is most extensively documented in Hong Kong, where the number of triad members is estimated to be in the tens of thousands, and to a lesser extent in Taiwan.
		Thus, even though triads, as organizations, may not control a wide range of criminal activity, it is important for law enforcement officials to understand, investigate, and develop intelligence about triad organizations, because individual triad members are invariably involved in a wide range of criminal activity.
		The strength of a particular triad may be perceived to increase as particular successful criminals use it to facilitate their activities, and may rapidly decline if these criminals are arrested, retire or shift to another triad.
	www.fas.org /irp/world/australia/docs/ncaaoc2.html (8444 words)

	Crime gangs fight Macau turf war
		For years, the triads have thrived, in uneasy coexistence with the government, by running the loan sharking, smuggling and flesh trade surrounding the casinos.
		Police sources estim ate the "14K" triad, boasting some 5,000 members, is on the wane despite outnumbering its rivals.
		The current bloodshed may also be the opening salvo as the triads jockey for position in Macau after the handover.
	members.tripod.com /~orgcrime/macauturfwar.htm (650 words)

	Organized Crime and the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Triad societies are in fact a collection of loose-knit groups or gangs rather than a monolithic criminal organization, such as the Mafia and Boryokudan whose power is diffused from a central core through an organized chain of command.
		Triad recruitment of students remains a problem, however, there is no indication of an organized Triad campaign to enter schools for recruitment, and most recruitment of students probably occurs outside schools.
		Triads most often come to police attention at the lower levels of their activities where their involvement in criminal activity is primarily through youth and street gangs.
	www.crime.hku.hk /organizecrime.htm (15566 words)

	Chinese Triads Feb04 Update - WarBoards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Mainland China and Triad connections, even though triads are mostly from Cantonese origins, the triads have long fled Mainland China to seek Democratic lands.
		Triads as a group only can survive in an environment that protects the rights of the people.
		The 14K also has a conspicuous presence in Taiwan that "was established by a Kuomintang general and still has ties to the Kuomintang Party." (US Hearings 93) It additionally has associates all throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Far East.
	www.warboards.org /showthread.php?t=541 (1337 words)

	Asiaweek.com
		Moreover, thoughtful officials have divided the prison into three clearly demarcated "worlds." The first is reserved for inmates associated with the 14K triad; the next is for those belonging to the Big Circle gang; the third for men allied with the Shui Fong crime syndicate.
		Coloane prison, in short, has come to be known as a triad hotel, a place where gangsters serenely serve out their sentences, returning to the streets refreshed and relaxed - and that is no small thanks to the Justice Department that runs it.
		In 1996, the triads made their first ever attempt to assassinate a senior official, the head of police intelligence, Col. Manuel Antonio Apolinario.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/98/1030/nat7.html (942 words)

	Triad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[edit] Portrayal of triad societies in popular culture
		Chan, who is being hunted by an Islamic militarist group.
		[edit] Public figures alleged to have or have had triad ties
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Triad (5473 words)

	Macau: The administration loses out to the criminals
		A report in the Hong Kong Standard on July 31 said that the 14K triad society is in a dispute with the hotel over the access to the casinos of loan sharks and other gang representatives.
		The alleged head of the 14K triad society, Wan Kuok-koi, was reported by Macau's Hoje newspaper to have promised a bloody gang war which would last until Macau's handover to China in 1999.
		Police have blamed the recent surge in violence on a "turf war" between Macau's two main triad gangs, the 14K and Soi Fong.
	members.tripod.com /~orgcrime/macauadmin.htm (477 words)

	World: Macau hopes gang convictions will help rein in mobs
		Wan Kuok-koi, alias ``Broken Tooth Koi,'' an alleged boss of the notorious 14K triad, is being tried along with eight codefendants for a variety of mob activities.
		Wan insists he is an innocent businessman who knows about the 14K triad but is not involved.
		They see the assassinations as business transactions among triads that operate loanshark activities and prostitution and protection rackets, while skimming profits from casinos that are the main industry in this enclave 40 miles west of Hong Kong.
	www.seacoastonline.com /1999news/11_20_w2.htm (694 words)

	JARIUS BONDOC: PING IMMORALIZED IN BOOK ON TRIADS
		They had met when the gangster was still a middle-level soldier of the 14K Triad in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
		It was 1989, and Wong was hustling a quartet of Gould’s students in English as Second Language, an adjustment course for teenage kids of immigrants newly arrived in the West.
		It is also a historical piece on the birth of the Triads, the Opium Wars and how the British Commonwealth sponsored the drug trade at first, and the way the gangs were able to corrupt Asia’s police and judges.
	www.newsflash.org /2004/02/ht/ht004327.htm (1036 words)

	Asiaweek.com \| Editorial: War on Triads \| 12/10/99
		As triads battled for their cut of lucrative gambling revenues, they have been abetted by lax and corrupt law enforcement on both sides of the border with southern China.
		Like Macau itself, the triads will be obliged to depend on gambling for some time yet.
		The message to the 14K and other triad gangs was clear: Don't get any ideas about staging revenge bombings or other disruptions in the coming weeks.
	www.pathfinder.com /asiaweek/magazine/99/1210/ed.macau.triads.html (668 words)

	knight
		She ultimately realized the outcry wasn't going away and announced career diplomat Joe Bissett would be going to Los Angeles, where Lai's application was processed, to investigate why and how he was allowed into this country.
		The "Shiu Fong" (water rat) triad have been engaged in a bloody gangland war with the "14K" triad of nearby Hong Kong in a dispute over control in Macau.
		It culminated with the drive-by shootings of three members of the 5,000-strong "14K" triad.
	www.nsnews.com /issue/w112497/knight.html (781 words)

	Paper Fan - The Hunt for Triad Gangster Steven Wong
		Steven Wong was head of the Gum Wah Gang, suspected of heroin trafficking, 14K Triad status and bloody murder in the streets of Vancouver.
		His last book was The Lifestyle, the definitive account of the swinging movement in North America, published in 1999 in the USA and Canada by Random House Canada.
		Triad Societies in Hong Kong has served for decades as the tome by which all such evil was measured and understood.
	www.thelifestyle.nu /paperfan.html (1746 words)

	EastSouthWestNorth: Triad Movies in Hong Kong
		Later at noon, Wong was having lunch by the basketball court.
		I myself am a member of the "Tak"-group of the 14K in Tian Shui Wei) Wong may not have realized that it is against the law to proclaim triad membership.
		News) The police believes that someone has been watching too many triad movies and then tried to talk and act like those characters in the movies.
	www.zonaeuropa.com /20051016_1.htm (932 words)

	Streetgangs.com :: View topic - Triads not street gangs
		Triads are not called "clans", only the Yakuza use the "clan" term.
		Th 14k Triad there the same they have 4 sub set set worldwide and have seven asian street gangs doing street deals ect for them in the US, UK, F, NL, B, L, D and ES United Bamboo are the same they also have street gangs working the streets for them worldwide
		Yeah Bahala Na and Kuduku are a phillipino/East asian gangs my mistake but they probaly do have Triad connects so they can get there Heroin ect ect...
	www.streetgangs.com /billboard/viewtopic.php?t=8737 (833 words)

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