Triad (organized crime)

A Triad is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China and has outposts in various countries with significant overseas Chinese populations.

Quotes

 * To you I'm a thief, to my mother, a son, to the Triads I'm a hero.
 * the character Alan in Hard Boiled
 * 14K. First generation Chinese-American, tenth generation Triad. His father sent him to business school, and he's the only man in here who holds a degree from MIT. He's killed four men off the track.
 * the character Lists in Death Race
 * Looks like you guys should put more "try" in "Triad".
 * the character Mako in the episode "Rebel Spirit" of Season 2 of The Legend of Korra




 * Simon: You know Bruce Lee's not really dead, don't you? Yeah, it's in a book. What he did was he faked his own death so that he could work undercover for the Hong Kong police, inflitrating drugs gangs and the Triads.
 * Gareth: Yeah, I reckon that's true.
 * Tim: Yeah, I reckon that's true. Because if you were gonna send someone undercover to investigate the Triads, you'd probably want the world's most famous Chinese film star.
 * episode "Motivation", Season 2 of The Office