Chalk dust settles on vicious hit

A COUPLE of chalk marks on the road outside Macau's New World Emperor Hotel is the only testimony to a vicious triad killing.

Things were back to normal inside the hotel where Andely Chan Yiu-hing had been drinking shortly before he and his two associates, were shot at close range by men wearing helmets.

But the apparent calm belied just how tough and dangerous things can be at times in this tiny Portuguese enclave.

Chan was a car racer and by all accounts a good one, but his death was far removed from his regular tempting of fate behind the wheel of a Honda saloon.

For the most part, triad crime only involves those directly concerned with its business.

Innocent bystanders rarely get caught in the crossfire.