| Founding location | Federation of Malaya |
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| Years active | As early as 1950s |
| Territory | Malaysia and Singapore |
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| Ang Soon Tong | |||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 洪順堂 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 洪顺堂 | ||||||||||||||
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Ang Soon Tong (Chinese: 洪顺堂; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: âng sūn tông) is a secret society based in Singapore and Malaysia. According to a former police officer, the society was active as early as the 1950s, mainly in the Sembawang area.[1] In 1998, a 19-year-old youth was arrested for setting up a website dedicated to the society.[2]
As recently as 2020, Ang Soon Tong is still active, with one of its members sentenced to reformative probation that year for clashing with members of another secret society.[3]
The gang gain profits through illegal activities such as smuggling and trading of gun and drugs, illegal moneylending and illegal gambling.[4]
- ^ "Gangland Singapore". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on 28 April 2007. Retrieved 10 May 2007.
- ^ Mike Magee (31 December 1998). "Triads reach cyberspace". The Register. Retrieved 10 May 2007.
- ^ Public Prosecutor v Mohammad Sheikh Ismail bin Abdullah (Singapore District Court 23 August 2004), Text, archived from the original on 10 July 2012.
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