An excellent read about the purging of the chinky cancer in a Myanmar casino town.

Well worth a coffee and a read.

The photographs released by Chinese police showed their officers holding a man and a woman in handcuffs in front of a border gate.

They had just been handed over from Myanmar, the latest in scores of arrests of those accused of running scam centres in a town on the north-eastern border with China. The two were Ming Guoping and Ming Zhenzhen, son and granddaughter of one of the powerful warlords who have run the town of Laukkaing for the past 14 years.

A sudden escalation of the conflict in Myanmar has spelled the end of the Chinese mafia - the Godfather-esque "four families" - in this notoriously lawless border town.

The Chinese mafia'''s downfall in a lawless casino town - BBC News