Triad Gangs and Kung Fu

[Xiao3 Meng4]

i would make a very strong response, but im scare of david jameon. he is drunk with power.

i never told anyone on this forum, but bawang in mandarin means a small baby cow that has just been born and hasnt opened its eyes yet, which resembles a purple eggplant.

LOL, you are the 霸王 of wit.

there are at least half a dozen individuals here who should be banned for their clueless interuptions and decietful behavior.

Agreed: I for one would participate actively again if threads were safe from being derailed by your interruptions, deceit and elitism.

[Hardwork108]

Agreed: I for one would participate actively again if threads were safe from being derailed by your interruptions, deceit and elitism.

Please give an example of my "deceit"!!!

[Unless you believe that it is deceit when one tells people that there are TCMA methodolgies out there that they have no clue about, if so, then the clueless will see this fact as elitism and hence will derail a given thread by whining about it! This has happened dozens of times in this very forum!]

Thanks in advance!!!

[Faruq]

i would make a very strong response, but im scare of david jameon. he is drunk with power.

i never told anyone on this forum, but bawang in mandarin means a small baby cow that has just been born and hasnt opened its eyes yet, which resembles a purple eggplant.

I feel deceived, Bawang Shifu. I just found out that "bawang" actually means despot king, or tyrant. I feel just like the guys who pay the $500 for the fake Bai Shee ceremony and mastery certificate. I am devastated....

[Dark Chi]

especially places like Fut San.

Is it on this clip by any chance?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Wb52XXmts

Low level practitioners need not apply LOL

[Dragonzbane76]

I love people spamming the same stuff across multiple threads

[Snipsky]

I love people spamming the same stuff across multiple threads

I think the guy has some wierd kind of krush on me or something. LOL.

[GeneChing]

Earlier post on martial arts gangs here. Also see Jackie Chan - Message to East Timor.

East Timor Bans Martial Arts Clubs Amid Killings
DILI, East Timor September 23, 2013 (AP)
By GUIDO GOULART Associated Press

East Timor police say there will be zero tolerance against those who continue to practice a local martial art after the government banned all clubs following deadly gang violence, an official said Monday.

At least 12 East Timorese have been killed and more than 200 injured in the past two years as a result of fighting among rival pencak silat clubs, said Armando Monteiro, National Police detective chief. Two were killed in neighboring Indonesia, while other deaths and injuries have occurred as far away as England and Ireland. He said the number of casualties is likely higher since many people are afraid to report gang activity or go to the hospital for treatment.

"Any martial arts clubs members that violate the government resolution will be dealt with under the law," Monteiro said. There will be "zero tolerance for martial arts activities in the country."

Schools and clubs for pencak silat, an adapted form of the Indonesian martial art, have a long history in East Timor, with many students in the past fighting against Indonesia's military occupation. They also became active clandestine members in supporting guerrilla fighters and some made significant contributions toward winning the country's independence in 2002.

Later, martial arts students became rivals and began killing each other in the streets as happened in 2006 during a violent political crisis that left dozens dead and tens of thousands displaced in the tiny half-island nation.

In many villages across East Timor, students start learning pencak silat at age 13. Less popular martial arts, such as karate, kung fu, taekwondo and judo, are not banned.

Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao issued a resolution outlawing the popular clubs two months ago. He said he has tried to work with the groups for years to allow them to continue to operate peacefully, but said the original purpose and philosophy of martial arts has been lost in East Timor.

"I have no more mercy and no more patience," said Gusmao, who added he has tried to work with the groups since becoming the country's first president in 2002. "I cannot tolerate the situation anymore, and I cannot permit it anymore."

Gusmao said police and members of the military have been told to leave martial arts groups or be fired.

Some clubs have publicly handed over their uniforms to police in front of government officials, but police say some members continue to conduct their training secretly at night.

Monteiro said anyone caught violating the resolution will be punished under the law. Seven martial arts clubs were registered, but many others exist without the government's knowledge making it difficult to estimate the number of members nationwide.

Last month, one East Timorese student was killed at Widyagama University in Malang, Indonesia, and another had his hand cut off with a samurai sword by a martial arts gang member.

"I need justice because the suspects who cut off my hand have not yet been captured by the police," said Jacinto Cipriano Ximenes, 25, a final-year telecommunications student who plans to return to school and finish his studies this year.

[PalmStriker]

TCMA UnderBelly: http://chinesemartialstudies.com/201...l-south-china/

[hskwarrior]

TCMA UnderBelly: http://chinesemartialstudies.com/201...l-south-china/

that underbelly was responsible for overthrowing the qing in 1911. they are hero's. the strong ones. those "INTELLECTUAL" blah blah blahs didn't do anything but cower in the corner.

[PalmStriker]

that underbelly was responsible for overthrowing the qing in 1911. they are hero's. the strong ones. those "INTELLECTUAL" blah blah blahs didn't do anything but cower in the corner.

Yes, quite right. That is usually the prescription when the people are ruled over by greedy, corrupt, evil tyrants.

[GeneChing]

There isn't any Kung Fu mentioned in this news, but I'm intrigued that it was in Italy, cradle of the mafia.

JANUARY 18, 2018 / 7:33 AM / UPDATED A DAY AGO
Italy breaks up Chinese crime ring involved in drugs, prostitution
Silvia Ognibene
3 MIN READ

FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - Italy ordered the arrest of 33 people on Thursday on suspicion of running a Chinese mafia group involved in gambling, prostitution and drugs, and which dominated the transport of Chinese goods across Europe.

The group’s base was in Prato, near Florence, a hub for the textile industry where many factories are owned and run by Chinese, police said in a statement.

But the network had members in other parts of Italy and across Europe, with arrest warrants issued in Rome, Milan, Padua, Paris, Madrid and Neuss, Germany, the statement said.

Those detained are accused of being members of a mafia organization and other crimes.

The suspected boss, Naizhong Zhang, was based in Rome. He used profits from illegal activities to build a massive transport company that dominated the trucking of goods for thousands of Chinese companies, police said.

In one phone intercept published in a court document, Zhang recounts meeting three associates in France and telling them they could stop working with him if they wished. “I only said two things. ‘If you go with me, you will live. If you go against me, you will die,'” he is quoted as saying.

“The next day, at midday, they all three came to me and said they wanted to join forces,” he added.

It was not immediately possible to contact the arrested men or their lawyers for comment.

Zhang won a near-monopoly in distribution across much of Europe through threats and violence against Chinese company owners, anti-mafia prosecutors said.

Thursday’s operation broke up “a dangerous organization that had used force to take control of trucking, and was financed by its illegal activities,” Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti said in a statement.

Italy has a long history of home-grown organized crime, including the Sicilian Mafia and the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta, but immigration to Europe has opened the way for foreign crime groups to take root, including the Nigerian and Chinese mafias.

“Being able to shed light on mafia character of this group is almost incredible,” Federico Cafiero De Raho, Italy’s chief anti-mafia prosecutor, told a news conference.

“It’s quite unusual to be able to identify a complex Chinese mafia organization.”

The investigation, called “China Truck”, began in 2011 following a turf war in Prato between rival Chinese gangs -- one group originating from Zhejiang province in eastern China and the other from the southeastern province of Fujian.

Some 40 people were thought to have been murdered between 2005-2010 before Zhang, who came from Zhejiang, emerged from the war as the undisputed criminal boss, a judicial source said.

Magistrates estimated that his group’s business activities were worth “hundreds of millions of euros”.

Apart from the arrests, prosecutors seized eight companies and an equal number of vehicles and “a few” millions of euros.

Writing by Steve Scherer and Crispian Balmer in Rome; Editing by Catherine Evans

[GeneChing]

Deported...to the U.S.

A legal immigrant.

The last goodbye: Hong Kong’s ‘King of Thieves’ Kwai Ping-hung spends final night behind bars playing games and chatting to inmates
Notorious gangster given fish and rice for last supper which he ate alone in his cell
Kwai will be escorted to Hong Kong International Airport under heavy security and deported to the US
Christy Leung
Published: 5:09pm, 17 Jan, 2020


Kwai Ping-hung will be released from Stanley Prison on Saturday after spending the past 16 years behind bars. Photo: Handout

Kwai Ping-hung, the “King of Thieves” who has been in prison for 16 years, will bid farewell to fellow inmates on his last night in prison, before he walks free on Saturday and is deported to the United States.
The 59-year-old US passport holder, once Hong Kong’s most wanted gangster, is set to be released from the maximum security facility, Stanley Prison, in the morning and will be escorted under tight security to Hong Kong International Airport to take a flight to New York.
A government source told the Post that on their last day behind bars, most prisoners usually gather with others, shake hands and say goodbye during evening recreation time.
“Kwai is expected to do the same as he gets along with other inmates well. He made some friends there,” the source said.
On his last full day in brown prison garb with his name tag on it, Kwai was still required to work, but he had one last run around with his fellow inmates during the afternoon break.


Stanley Prison cell

Around 5pm, the former crime lord was served with fish and rice for his final supper behind bars, and instead of a big celebration, he ate alone in his own 80.7 square foot single cell.
Kwai is expected to spend around two hours of free time on his own, before the light goes out at 10pm.
Since Kwai was convicted in 2005, his life has been limited to a single cell with a plastic bed, a plastic desk attached to the wall, a plastic chair, and a sink and toilet made of stainless steel. His daily routine saw him waking up at 6.30am, having breakfast at 8am, and working for 3½ hours before lunch.
He had another working session in the afternoon before dinner and leisure time at 5pm. Cells are locked at 8pm and lights must go out at 10pm.
Kwai’s release has prompted law enforcement to be put on high alert, as the former crime lord was labelled “an extremely dangerous figure” by police.


Kwai Ping-hung arrives at Eastern Magistrates’ Court in Sai Wan Ho under heavy security in December 2003. Photo: Martin Chan

The Post has been told that elite police officers from the Special Duties Unit (SDU), dubbed the Flying Tigers, will be on standby on Saturday. The former gangster will leave prison accompanied by Correctional Services Department staff, who will hand him over to immigration and police officers to escort him to the airport.


When Kwai Ping-hung was arrested on Christmas Eve in 2003, police seized the largest haul of weapons for 30 years. Photo: AP

Also known as Guan Derong, Kwai, who came to the city illegally from China in 1980, was caught on Christmas Eve 2003 after the SDU broke into his Yau Ma Tei flat as he slept. Officers made the biggest seizure of firearms for nearly 30 years during the raid, and found a wide range of weapons, including shotguns, self-loading pistols, almost 900 rounds of ammunition, and seven grenades.
Not a single shot was fired during the three-hour raid as Kwai was literally caught napping. The arrest was described as “the best Christmas gift to Hongkongers” and brought an end to an era when larger-than-life criminals armed with AK47s turned Hong Kong’s streets into shooting galleries.


Police escort a hooded Kwai Ping-hung out of a building in Yau Ma Tei after his arrest in December 2003. Photo: Handout

For all of his convictions, Kwai was handed a total jail term of 24 years in 2005. Another government source told the Post the gangster received a one-third reduction for good behaviour.
During the 1980s and 90s, Hong Kong was gripped by a crime wave that saw police battling heavily armed criminals on the streets of its busiest neighbourhoods, as many crime bosses from Guangdong province sneaked into the city to carry out high-profile robberies of jewellery shops. It prompted the force to expand its structure and strengthen its arms.
Kwai was suspected of committing 20 armed robberies over the course of 30 years, including shooting and wounding two policemen in Mong Kok in 2001.
Then organised crime and triad bureau head, Andy Tsang Wai-hung – who later became the commissioner of police – posted a record HK$2 million reward for the capture of Kwai, and had Interpol issue a red notice, asking law enforcement worldwide to help find the wanted man.

This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: ‘King of Thieves’ bids farewell to fellow inmates on his last night behind bars