What is the name of the main rival of the group that Stephen Tse had heavy ties to?
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Ping On The Ping On triad was a Boston-based criminal organization. The organization rose to power in the 1970s and continued to operate throughout the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The Ping On was founded by Stephen "Sky Dragon" Tse who had heavy ties to the infamous 14K Triad in Hong Kong.
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14K Triad The 14K (十四K) is a triad group based in Hong Kong but active internationally. It is the second largest Triad group in the world with around 25,000 members split into thirty subgroups. They are the main rival of the Sun Yee On, which is the largest Triad.
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Min Ko Naing Paw Oo Tun (Burmese: ပေါ်ဦးထွန်း ] ); better known by his alias Min Ko Naing, (မင်းကိုနိုင် ] , lit. "conqueror of kings") is a leading democracy activist and dissident from Myanmar. He has spent most of the years since 1988 imprisoned by the state for his opposition activities. "The New York Times" has described him as Burma's "most influential opposition figure after Daw Aung San Suu Kyi".
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Kudo-kai The Kudo-kai (工藤會 , Kudō-kai ) is a yakuza group headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 630 active members. An article by the Independent newspaper refers to the Kudo-kai as an affiliate of the Yamaguchi-gumi, but that is false. The Kudo-kai has been a purely independent syndicate ever since its foundation, and has caused numerous conflicts with the Yamaguchi-gumi (at least on eight separate occasions in 2000; at least one Yamaguchi-affiliate boss was shot to death by the Kudo-kai in 2000). The Independent article may mean "Kodo-kai".
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Focus Group Holdings Limited Focus Group Holdings Limited ("Focus Group"; ), is a company formed by Andy Lau Tak-wah, a popular Hong Kong actor and singer. It is managed by a professional and experienced team. Focus Group is essentially engaged in the films business and artiste management business.
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Seibu Holdings Seibu Holdings, Inc. (株式会社西武ホールディングス , Kabushiki-gaisha Seibu Hōrudingusu ) is a Japanese holding company which primarily owns Seibu Railway, Prince Hotels, Seibu Bus and its subsidiaries, which are collectively known as the Seibu Group. In total, fifty-three companies across the world are affiliated with the Seibu Group. The company was formed in 2006 to restructure the group after it had come to light in 2004 that the predecessor to Seibu Holdings, Kokudo, had falsified the ownership of its shares in Seibu Railway for over forty years.
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La Main Rouge La Main Rouge (English: The Red Hand ) was a terrorist organization operated by the foreign Department of the French External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service (French: "Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage" , SDECE) in the 1950s, which pursued the goal to eliminate the supporters of Algerian independence and the leading members of the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) during the Algerian War.
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Wo Hop To Wo Hop To, or WHT (和合圖) is a Triad group based in Wanchai, Hong Kong. The name translates to "Harmoniously United Association" or "Harmonious Union Plan" and is thought to have been founded in 1908 in Sai Ying Pun as a secret political organisation in opposition to the Qing dynasty. They are one of the Four Major Gangs (四大黑幫) of Hong Kong, the others being Wo Shing Wo, 14K and Sun Yee On.
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New Century Forum New Century Forum () is a pro-Beijing middle-class oriented political group in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The group comprises professionals, businessmen and academics, and aims to represent the voice of the middle-class. It is currently led by convenor Ma Fung-kwok.
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Second Taiwan Strait Crisis The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict that took place between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) in which the PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen and the nearby Matsu Islands along the east coast of the PRC (in the Taiwan Strait) to "liberate" Taiwan from the Chinese Nationalist Party, also called Kuomintang (KMT), and probe the extent of the United States defense of Taiwan's territory.
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Triad (organized crime) A triad is one of many branches of Chinese transnational organized crime syndicates based in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and also in countries with significant Chinese populations, such as the United States, Canada, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Spain, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
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Three Evils The Three Evils are defined by the Chinese government as "terrorism, separatism and religious extremism". The phrase is frequently used when referring to counter-terrorism operations undertaken by China, the Central Asian republics, and Russia.
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Balance of threat The balance of threat (BoT) theory was proposed by Stephen M. Walt first in an article titled ""Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power"" published in the journal "International Security" in 1985 and later further elaborated in his book ""The Origins of Alliances"" (1987). The balance of threat theory modified the popular balance of power theory in the neorealist school of international relations.
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Wudang Sect The Wudang Sect, sometimes also referred to as the Wu-tang Sect or Wu-Tang Clan, is a fictional martial arts sect mentioned in several works of "wuxia" fiction. It is commonly featured as one of the leading orthodox sects in the "wulin" (martial artists' community). It is named after the place it is based, the Wudang Mountains.
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Brotherhood of Evil The Brotherhood of Evil is a group of DC Comics supervillains, archenemies of the original Doom Patrol and the Teen Titans.
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Taiwan ROCSAUT Taiwan Republic of China Student Association at University of Toronto (Taiwan ROCSAUT or simply ROCSAUT) is the Taiwanese cultural group in University of Toronto, and is the largest student organization with Taiwanese background in Eastern North America.
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2016 Chinese meme war on Facebook The 2016 Chinese meme war on Facebook, also known as the War of Biaoqingbao (表情包大战), is an online campaign to flood the Facebook pages of Taiwan president-elect Tsai Ing-wen, Apple Daily (蘋果日報) and SET News (三立新聞) with pro-China messages protesting against the Taiwan independence movement. The action was mainly organized by a popular Chinese online forum "Li Yi Tieba" (李毅吧), also called "Di Ba" (帝吧), which has a membership of 21 million netizens. A large group of self-proclaimed organized "warriors" made a concerted effort to circumvent Internet controls and posted thousands of messages, in a campaign that lasted for weeks.
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IGE IGE (Internet Gaming Entertainment) is a company which trades in virtual currency and accounts for MMORPGs. One of the main dealers in virtual economy services, members of the gaming community were often critical of IGE, as its services may allow players to break rules in online games.
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Sinister Syndicate The Sinister Syndicate is a fictional group of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The characters serve as a collection of lesser-known Spider-Man villains. It was the focus of the 1991 "Deadly Foes of Spider-Man" mini-series.
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The Shaikh Group The Shaikh Group (TSG) is a political consultancy focused on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Their mission is to facilitate dialogue with the peoples of the region and between states in the region, as well as with key international actors. TSG aims to advance practical initiatives that promote peace, tolerance, mutual security, and shared economic prosperity.
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Strategic group A strategic group is a concept used in [strategic management] that groups companies within an industry that have similar business models or similar combinations of strategies. For example, the restaurant industry can be divided into several strategic groups including fast-food and fine-dining based on variables such as preparation time, pricing, and presentation. The number of groups within an industry and their composition depends on the dimensions used to define the groups. Strategic management professors and consultants often make use of a two dimensional grid to position firms along an industry's two most important dimensions in order to distinguish direct rivals (those with similar strategies or business models) from indirect rivals. Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long term which achieves advantages for the organization while business model refers to how the firm will generate revenues or make money.
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New Qing History The New Qing History is a school of thought that gained prominence in the United States in the mid-1990s by offering a wide-ranging revision of history of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Earlier historians had emphasized the power of Han Chinese to “sinicize” their conquerors, that is, to assimilate and make them Chinese in their thought and institutions. In the 1980s and early 1990s, American scholars began to learn Manchu and took advantage of newly opened Chinese- and Manchu-language archives. This research found that the Manchu rulers were savvy in manipulating their subjects and from the 1630s through at least the 18th century, emperors developed a sense of Manchu identity and used Central Asian models of rule as much as they did Confucian ones. According to some scholars, at the height of their power, the Qing regarded "China" as only a part, although a very important part, of a much wider empire that extended into the Inner Asian territories of Mongolia, Tibet, the Northeast (today sometimes called Manchuria) and Xinjiang, or Chinese (Eastern) Turkestan.