Broken Tooth’s BRI Bluff

Former Macau triad boss Wan Kuok-koi, also known as “Broken Tooth,” photographed in Macau in the late 1990s.
Credit: David Paul Morris

At 7 a.m. on December 1, 2012, with a crush of media waiting nearby, the Coloane Prison in the Chinese territory of Macau released one of the region�

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