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Choi says local criminal gangs did not want him selling gum in the area and once grabbed him and took him to a nearby mountain.

The Elder Brother Society is one of three big gangs in Chinese contemporary and modern history, is called in Sichuan "Pao Ge" .

Most street people are always fighting to avoid the man street gangs that are always trying to control they're territory.

And gangs of liquor smugglers made it easy to buy an illegal drink - or two or three.

Children with high self-esteem are less likely to be bullied, or to bully, or belong to gangs.

Local media said the matter fully exposed without the local legal system, rampant crime gangs.

If this were just a turf war between criminal gangs, things might be brought under control.

Cops might target populations of young men and work with the community to find them mentors and jobs, or to keep them out of gangs.

For years, Lucille Jackson battled gangs and extreme violence in her community to provide hope for her 17-year-old grandson.

She says she received many desperate phone calls from people unable to get out of the city because of blockades erected by Kyrgyz gangs.

We could do with a little more of that over here. Might discourage some of the gangs grooming young girls!

Activists, diplomats and reporters who tried to visit Mr Chen were attacked by gangs of thugs stationed around the outskirts of his village.

A weak government in Somalia is unable to restrain pirate gangs, he said, and ship owners are paying huge ransoms.

The aim of the emergency, which grants special powers to the police and army, is to try to break the island's violent criminal gangs.

These gangs are behind some of the biggest data breaches that companies have owned up to (see chart).

The local police chief said the crime was probably the result of fighting between local drug gangs.

Pablo Escobar did it and the Mexican drug gangs have been at it a while too.

In the first part of that triad, a study of the concept of triad gangs.

Getting over his shyness, De Niro hung out with the street kids and gangs from his neighborhood throughout most of his years as a teenager.

As if it was not enough for us to deal with the PT [government party] gangs, now we will have a PCC congressional bench.

"These gangs are like rats, " he said. "They represent nothing, not even one in a million of the Libyan people. "

Groups of men in leather jackets brandished guns. Some of them were apparently members of Alawite gangs, hostile to the protesters.

She said that armed gangs who carry out planned killings with impunity operate with the backing of the city's main political parties.

"There's peer pressure to join gangs, " says Maria, a young teenager at a Boys &Girls Club run out of a church basement in Fairfax County.

Though not a week goes by without stories of "grooming" gangs and rogue taxi drivers, these statistics are better news than they seem.

Both cities have been caught up in turf wars between drugs gangs fighting over lucrative smuggling routes.

The US state department said the killings underscored the "severe and significant danger " drug gangs represented to Mexico and the US .

Plantation gangs began to oust the patch cultivation of the labourer serf in the case of some staple products.

According to a recent report by Taiwan media, in the face of a slowing economy, various Taiwanese gangs are now short of money.

Officials said that since the beginning of the city's special operation to crush gangs in July, police have investigated 23 officials.

The government is trying to strengthen the police in the face of violence from drug gangs in which nearly 5, 400 people have died this year.

It would end up in the customs until someone paid tax and duty . . . All those customs gangs think and act the same way.

The profits generated by cocaine exports to the United States and Europe have allowed drug gangs to turn themselves into illegal armies.

"These gangs don't recognise the authority of the police, " he said.

The band Kishidan often dresses up in dark uniforms, including those worn by Japan's motorcycle gangs called "bosozoku. "

Powerful gangs seek to silence bloggers who dare to expose the illegal activities of criminal organizations, he said.

But over the past week there have been a dozen arson attacks on buses, most of them ambushes by gangs.

It has a reputation as one of the wildest places in Cambodia, an anything-goes town ruled by drugs, gangs, gambling and prostitution.

start a program to keep young people out of gangs, and she's on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.

The state media said the army was chasing what they called the "remnants of armed terrorist gangs" through the surrounding countryside.

Many of the politicians have failed to cough up for those services, so the gangs have been venting their frustration on the streets.

The grey treepie, a corvid, was a late riser, but hoodlum gangs soon made up for it.

I once watched a film about a war between rival gangs in an American city. It was a sad story of crime and violence.

But even after law enforcement broke the gangs' stranglehold on the neighborhood in the 1990s, gambling rooms continued to flourish.

The dead are thought to be victims of drugs gangs who have been fighting for control of smuggling in the United States.

"No dignified honorable nation would accept an ultimatum from armed gangs, " he said.

The undercover agent immediately sourced the police when he found out the gangs' meeting place.

Cracking down on gangs will give you a moment of peace, but rule of law will safeguard a generation of righteousness.

Rock-throwing gangs attacked two trains linking Paris to Charles de Gaulle Airport, dragging out a conductor and smashing windows.

Children who has strong self-esteem would not be bullied or bully others, no more than join in bad gangs.

In a scene for a Chinese TV series, stuntmen portray Shaolin monks battling bandit gangs during the Qing dynasty.

Crime is said to be high, with drug gangs moving into unused shacks, but the police offer little relief.

Around 135 gangs are thought to be fighting over a business worth an estimated C$7 billion ($6. 2 billion) a year.

It's not a happy thought, but your kids could get mixed up in gangs or bad scenes.

No one knows for sure what sparked the feud among the notoriously violent "bikie" gangs that dominate the country's protection rackets.

The vast majority of the victims are low-level members of rival gangs killed in a turf war raging around the country.

The police broke up the fight among the two black gangs.

Increased authoritarianism in an effort to crack down on crime, gangs, smuggling and so forth can be one result.

Someone said the protesters are violent "chimere, " a word for political gangs.

These street urchins soon formed into gangs and by the end of the 19th Century Hell's Kitchen became the crime capital of the U. S.

Many members of the kidnapping gangs arrested so far have been active or retired policemen.

But urban Guatemalans are more worried about rampant crime, much of it by drug gangs.

Third, it suffers from widespread crime and violence, much of it perpetrated by organised drug gangs.

The going has been tough for both the law enforcement groups and the general public as rival gangs fight the police and each other.

So called "snakehead" gangs have beenresponsible for smuggling thousands of illegal migrants out of China into HongKong every year.

Mungiki gangs had terrorized people going in and out of Nairobi, the capital, for years.

The kidnapping gangs bought and sold people; it was like its own terrible ecosystem.

The latest battleground in a multilateral war between drug-trafficking gangs and the authorities, Monterrey is not a dusty outpost.

Well he might: his country is experiencing a plague of racist murder and violence, often committed by neo-Nazi gangs.

Downtown Shinjuku, Tokyo, is the heart of the battle between cops and gangs.

Often, showing the " bulge " is enough to gain the respect of rival gangs. In robberies brandishing the weapon will usually do.

The merchants recognized them at once as belonging to one of the notorious salt-smuggling gangs.

Again, there are parallels with those gangs of violent teenagers who appear to have no fear of punishment for illegal actions .

That broke the conveyor-belt in which underworld gangs seized victims and passed them on to FARC units near the cities.

It also offers expanded coverage of gangs specific to other countries as well as those that have become genuinely international in nature.

Some of the riots have been co-ordinated by criminal gangs, the police believe.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has poured thousands of armed police and troops into the area to wrest control from the powerful gangs.

When Egyptians celebrated International Women's Day on March 8, gangs of men harassed them.

Both sexes are taken for labour or to beg for gangs, say experts.

Mr McCarthy will fight gangs by joining forces with community groups, as he did in Newark.

In addition, a number of local prosecutors are waging war against gangs by an innovative use of the public-nuisance laws.

Taliban insurgents and criminal gangs are blamed for a recent wave of killings and kidnappings targeting Afghans and foreigners.

Like Richard, Gerardo wants to use his experience to help other kids stay away from gangs.

Gangs that used to confine themselves to the drugs trade are branching out into robbery, extortion, and kidnapping.

Despite riot police positioned across the city, gangs of youths on mountain bikes, their faces masked, prowled the streets.

Ed: Ok, it was a crummy swing in the park, where all the gangs used to hold their knife fights.

Sophisticated criminal gangs, many based in Eastern Europe and China, are thought to be behind the increase.

OVER the past few weeks, gunfights between police and drug gangs along Mexico's border with the United States have left dozens dead.

Others say it is an organised attempt by criminal gangs to flex their muscles and face down the police.

In parts of Taiwan, gangs dig into the riverbank for gravel and sell it to construction companies.

It may find itself run by a mixture of jihadists, including both AQAP and criminal gangs; exclusive AQAP rule seems unlikely at present.

Most of the violence are attributed to drug gangs for control of drug trafficking into the United States access each other battles.

Troops are sweeping through towns across the province in pursuit of what they claim are "armed gangs" .

Gangs of local Muslims had objected to renovations to the church, which, they said, had been built without a permit.

Gangs of youths backed by police are reported to have loaded trucks with the belongings of senior members of Mr Ouattara's administration.

Riots and clashes between mostly ethnic Uzbek and Kyrgyz gangs broke out in Osh, the largest city in southern Kyrgyzstan on June 10.

There have always been gangs in our society, but never to this degree of violence and terror and never involving so many of the young.

Mr Sicilia blamed Mexican politicians as well as criminal gangs for the killings and he has demanded a thorough investigation.

Honduras, although poor and ravaged by corruption and violent gangs, had a seemingly stable democracy. But signs of strife were there.

In the 1980s and early 1990s the capos of Colombia's drug gangs engaged freely in politics and legitimate business. Sport was no exception.

The merchants curse the pirates but in a way they are a blessing. Pirate gangs were probably Nollywood's first exporters.

The police rounded up dozens of suspects, mostly from gangs affiliated with political parties in turn associated with ethnic groups.

After six months of efforts, in one fell swoop wiped out a long-entrenched Yangquan "Kwan brothers" triad gangs.

The gangs are believed to be responsible for a wave of killings, mutilations and be headings in the state.

The Post investigation suggests some tweaks to America's existing gun laws that might make it harder for Mexico's gangs to arm themselves.

I feel that enough has not been done to curb street gangs - BEFORE the occurences of the two recent incidents.

She came into the world of violence even in junior high school, she often had to face with representatives of other gangs.

But relatives of the prisoners say the men were resisting a massive police operation aimed at getting rid of the gangs.

Kidnap gangs ask for ransom to be paid by text messages listing a hundred or more numbers of high-value phone cards.

As Mexico and Colombia crack down on them, drug gangs are finding refuge in Guatemala.

cheese - face wanted to demur , - martin could see that , - but cheese - faces old perilous pride was touched before the two gangs.

It is also showing rather more determination than its predecessor against the criminal gangs which are often behind the killings.

Many settled in the barrios of Los Angeles, where they were preyed upon by the city's turf-conscious Mexican and black gangs.

Gangs of women in Zimbabwe have been picking up male travellers to have sexual intercourse and harvest their sperm, according to reports.

The sheriff ordered the police gangs, Elise remove agents identity, police terminate surveillance.

Girls in gangs are just as likely to participate in beatings as boys.

Relationships between prison and street gangs, and possible relationships with foreign drug trafficking organizations studied.

They have more gangs than us , Let's get out of here!

The drug gangs would still be left with more lucrative cocaine and methamphetamines. But it would become easier to defeat them.

All of those interviewed denied that Chinese organized-crime gangs were involved in the building's activities.

The violence , in which rival gangs fought with machetes , clubs, and bows and arrows, turned especially gruesome Sunday in Naivasha .

Then Beijing took charge, marching the military into the centre of Macau and warning the gangs that the violence had to end.

The drug gangs are anxious to avoid creating spillover violence, which would invite more attention from the American side.

"We need voices from within the community to tackle these criminal gangs. We need a protection plan for collaborators, " Mr Grasso says.

Today, another quarrel has broken out between two gangs; the dispute is aid to be over a pigeon.

Rio officials have said various gangs came together to intimidate authorities into scaling back their neighborhood peacekeeping initiative.

ONE of the striking features of Mexico's crackdown on drug gangs is that the resulting violence has kept a wide berth of the capital.

Sporadic looting broke out across the city centre, with gangs playing cat and mouse with riot police.

It was a chance to forget the violence visited on Mexico by drug-trafficking gangs (see article).

Before he went to jail, Shinoda is said to have greatly expanded the Yamaguchi-gumi's reach by sealing deals with other gangs.

It also needs jobs, if it is to prevent its youth joining the illegal economy of drug gangs and armed groups.

"Hijacking" of properties by criminal gangs is common, as is piling 10 or more tenants into a single flat.

They would learn and retain the laws of all three gangs, as well as the laws of the relationships between gangs.

Mexican President Ciudad Juarez has poured thousands of armed police and troops into the area to wrest control from the powerful gangs.

They are also better able to limit the influence of gangs and thus to prevent bullying, sexual assaults and venereal disease.

She was best known for convicting members of vigilante gangs with links to corrupt police officers.

Control of gang activity is a very serious police responsibility because youth gangs can terrorize a neighborhood.

And Rio has another big enemy: militias run by retired and off-duty police and fire officers now control as many favelas as the drug gangs.

A few years ago, Mr Rivers accompanied Mr Bratton on a trip to London where he promoted his ideas for tackling gangs and violent crime.

Taking office in December 2006 with a narrow mandate after a disputed election, he launched the army against violent drug-trafficking gangs.

Trinidad and Tobago has been under a limited state of emergency since August because of a surge of violent crime linked to drugs gangs.

Businesses are worried that cyber-attacks may involve organized criminal gangs, and are concerned about government interference.

Over the years, drug traffickers and other criminal gangs as a base for the slum and disrupt law and order.

And if cash is not forthcoming, gangs have been known to use paintings in deals for weapons or drugs.

When she refused to go due to the lack of legal and systematic motion, they came today and kidnapped her like gangs do.

Young ravens form gangs not to cause trouble, but to increase their chances of having a steady food supply through winter.

As head of the Revolutionary Committee in Shanghai Mr Zhang used the Red Guards, ruthless gangs of students and workers, to burn books.

Just as the looters were following the crowd, so many young people without guidance from home end up joining gangs in order to fit in.

Now, the president wants to fight those gangs with a form.

Until Portugal returned Macao to Chinese rule in 1999, the island had a reputation for violence, gangs, prostitution and pawnshops .

A group of people organized to achieve some common goal. Gangs are often involved in drugs, violence, money lending, prostitution, etc.

Many of his friends were in gangs but he wanted a different life and volunteered for the Manchester City community Kickz programme.

which is at the centre of a violent battle between rival drug gangs.

CONS: Low family income, limited cultural and religious diversity, growing concerns about methamphetamine use and gangs.

The police have set up a specialist team of city and provincial officers to target the gangs.

Tackling the aftermath, however, can be even harder than cracking the trafficking gangs.

This psychological pattern is the reason people attach passionately to value-based groups, from teenage gangs to political parties.

He candidly admitted to investigators that there are indeed some organized gangs smuggling illegal immigrants between Tunisia and Italy.

Despite not being part of either of the gangs, he was punched, kicked and struck by a board.

Often, showing the "bulge" is enough to gain the respect of rival gangs.

Now he says the army defectors are becoming more belligerent, attacking checkpoints, armed pro-regime gangs and military equipment.

A clash between rival gangs in a prison in Mexico's north-western state of Sinaloa has left some 28 inmates dead.

The gangs often stop traffic along the main airport road to steal money and cell phones.

To the history of Gali and Bobby Rush for the drugs, by Anne Interpol intelligence these two gangs surrounded and eliminated.

The two gangs got into a bloody fight late last night.

On Monday afternoon large gangs roamed Peckham and Hackney in east London, looting shops, attacking buses and setting cars and shops alight.

Police in Brazil moved into Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's biggest favela (slum), regaining control of the area from drug gangs.

The Brooklyn gang series is not really about gangs; it's about emotionality and tension, abuse and abandonment.

Criminal gangs that have sprung from the remnants of right-wing paramilitary groups have also gone into mining.

Some British police forces, notably Strathclyde's in Scotland, have made progress against gangs.

And experts fear that the massacre in Tamaulipas is a sign that Mexico's drug gangs are taking an interest in people-smuggling.

Gangs are gangs, and how to wear a suit and tie sitting office, do not trust the bandits have nothing bad habit forever.

It uncovered evidence that the shots were fired not from the guns of drug gangs or river pirates, but from the weapons of Thai soldiers.

The report says the military has seen members from 53 gangs and 100 regions in the U. S. enlist in every branch of the armed forces.

Meaning: . . . and expanding the size and number of armed gangs in rural areas by joining them.

He was also assaulted many times by gangs of young human toughs , who delighted in "showing him his place. "

The UN troops spent their first two years helping to evict armed gangs from urban slums.

Syrian authorities blame armed gangs and infiltrators supplied with weapons from Lebanon and Iraq for inciting the protests.

There was a fierce fight breaking out between two local gangs last night.

Across the world in Haiti, a recent wave of kidnappings by organized gangs is a reminder of past tensions.

The issues that Mr Jacobs alleges he was asked to withhold included information about Triad criminal gangs, which are active in Macau.

A recent U. S. State Department report found that gangs based in Burma, China, and Thailand produce several million tablets annually.

In recent years the business has increasingly involved gangs of criminals that are almost impossible to eliminate.

There is a boundary -- kind of an implicit understanding -- between local officials and mafia-like gangs. '

Reports say the investigation focuses on two abattoirs. There've also been suggestions that criminal gangs maybe involved.

How did the criminal gangs of Zhang Hong and Zhang Jieliang wash their guilt in collusion with a legal practitioner?

Areas of cities will become dangerous places in which street gangs "rule" some neighborhoods.

Moreover, many are complacent, at best, in the face of lean and sophisticated poaching gangs.

Imagine gangs of villagers celebrating some harvest day or something and included in the celebrations were sporting events.

Girls join gangs for a variety of reasons: protection, fun, because they like a particular boy or for acceptance.

Many demobilised paramilitaries have joined new criminal gangs. "We cannot rule out violent responses, " he says.

The pogroms and killings were organised by gangs, vigilantes and militias across northern, western and eastern India.

The police were reportedly joined by pro-government gangs armed with pipes and swords.

By voting no, Californians have done Mexico's criminal gangs a favour.

It was the handiwork of one of the most virulent street gangs in America's history.

Armed groups and criminal gangs in the kidnapping, the general will inform his family paid a ransom to release the hostages.

Barack Obama expressed support for Mexico's fight against drug gangs at the annual summit of North American leaders.

As people grow wise to email scams, criminal gangs will find new ways to commit online fraud, sell fake goods or steal corporate secrets.

Captain: We are planning to stay at this port only two days. We need separate stevedore gangs for each hold, the more, the better.

Russian forest inspectors I spoke to said there was little they could do against such well-funded and organised gangs.

UN peacekeepers have mounted raids in some of the rougher slums in Port-au-Prince, the capital, to keep criminal gangs in check.

Gangs of whores would rush out to surround cars stopped at red lights.

On Saturday, a police helicopter made an emergency landing after being hit by gunfire during a firefight between rival gangs.

Residents of Rio's slums sometimes torch buses to protest police killings of innocent people during raids against drug gangs.

State authorities responded by deploying heavily armed paramilitary police units to battle the gangs.

Drug trafficking and gangs are major causes of insecurity amongst the African-American neighborhoods.

With the gangs came gang violence: drive-by shootings, innocent victims killed, murders in broad daylight.

"BrownPride" and "Tri-City Bombers " are among the many gangs competing for local turf.

Streets in lanes were straight and orderly with trees on both sides. Gangs of kids were playing, joking, running, and catching.

He broke up the fight between the two gangs.

Mexico's notoriously ruthless drug gangs regularly hang victims from bridges and highway overpasses.

Ghost malware and other bugs are hidden deep within infected computers, allowing criminal gangs to silently gather personal information.

Most of them were planted by the FARC and some by a second guerrilla group or right-wing paramilitary gangs.

Roberto Cenni, Prato's mayor, says workers are exploited by gangs that organise their exodus from China with promises of jobs.

It's hard to imagine they were kidnapped and forced by criminal gangs to stealing and beg.

The court heard yesterday that Mr Deripaska will argue Mr Cherney had links with organised criminal gangs.

strengths: Fluent in both Spanish and English, Sanchez is an expert on Latino gangs.

The media has been saying that these attacks might be caused by organized crime, the army or gangs.

The killings represent an unprecedented and grisly escalation of Mexico's fight against powerful drug gangs.

Three great rivers flow through the northern plain--the Indus, Gangs, and Brahmaputra.

Fearless and unyielding, to fight bravely Until all the gangs of reactionaries are wiped out.

Locals warn visitors not to walk through Alawi areas where, they say, roaming gangs armed by the government commit acts of violence.

Some of South Korea's underworld gangs set stricter criteria than movie actors in recruiting their members, according to local media.

Whole groups of young people are losing their bearings, becoming cut off from society, joining gangs, turning to knives.

Along with Taliban rebels, organized criminal gangs, including the drug mafia, are also blamed for killings there.

Gangs from the Five Points, near where Luciano was raised, had long been recruiting members across ethnic barriers.

The following day, right-wing gangs began assaulting immigrants, whom they hold responsible for rising crime and unemployment.

West Coast hip-hop was heavy on gangster rap, filled with references to gangs, guns, and the inescapability of street life.

It's believed to belong to one of Colombia's most powerful drug gangs, the Rastrojos.

Perhaps the myth was necessary in the days of the wild west, of isolated frontier towns and roaming gangs.

Gangs often have automatic weapons more powerful than the police in many large U. S. cities.

They lurk in gangs on street corners, waiting to carry people or goods, or run errands.

At some evacuation centers, residents have spread rumors that gangs of robbers were breaking into homes and cars.

Wei also has retrieved bodies with gagged mouths and bound hands, the hallmark of criminal gangs and corrupt police.

Drug gangs demand protection money from vessels using the river, and sometimes hijack them to carry illicit cargo.

But then they left the nest and joined these roving youth gangs, grabbing what they could and harassing adults.

According to the report, the trade appears to be controlled by organised criminal gangs.

Some of them were apparently members of Alawite gangs, hostile to the protesters.

Politicians have been known to hire gangs and arm them to disrupt rivals' campaign events.

These barefoot gangs acted as a second-tier police force.

In the view of some Americans those two add up to . . . murderous gangs.

Unlike criminal gangs, we do not rob or kill.

Relations and friends of prominent Nigerians have also been targeted by gangs seeking ransom money.

An immediate fear, across the country, is that criminal gangs may take advantage of the mayhem.

Pickpocket gangs sometimes operate in the tourist areas, especially around road junctions, where a lot of natural jostling takes place.

Gang members often utilize the Internet to coax teens and dropouts into joining gangs during winter break.

Investigators said they believed drug gangs had used the remote spot to torture and execute their victims.

This strategy has forced migrants into the hills, where many fall victim to criminal gangs.

The chasm between rich and poor fuels militant gangs in the oil-rich southern delta and Islamist sects in the arid north.

To test the importance of wealth, the authors of the report asked why young people joined gangs and rebel groups in half a dozen countries.