A triad is a Chinese transnational organised crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, the Kowloon Walled City in British Hong Kong was controlled by local triads.
Xinhua News Agency, or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China. It is a ministry-level institution of the State Council. It is the country's largest
Xinhua headquarters office in Beijing, its design embodying the shape of a pencil