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Harry Yip Pui-kei (born November, 13th, 1965) is a 55 years old Chinese American and human rights activist within Koreatown. He is a corpulent 5'5 suit-clad old timer with distinctive wire-frame round glasses. He is known to be a former, now reformed Wah Ching associate and lawyer.

 

Yip grew up in Oakland Chinatown District (屋崙華埠), San Fierro. He was born in a lower-class immigrant family, his parents worked as shoemakers in various sweatshops on Harrison St. Yip was a victim of discrimination throughout his childhood and encountered cultural clashes within the Chinese community between newly immigrated people and those who were American-born and had assimilated to the culture. With his parents coming to America without savings because most of their money were spent on their transportation to the United States, eking out an existence below the poverty line, having to work when he was not in school and struggling to learn English, led Yip to join the local gangs from an early age. Yip left San Fierro in the early 1980s for a more thriving Los Santos. He worked as a low-level street dealer for Hugo Huen "Two Tongues (兩個脷)",  a local drug kingpin known with his activity centred in Textile City, formerly known as the Commerce Chinatown (商業唐人街), a small commerce neighbourhood with a large minority of Chinese-American communities. Yip later earned the street moniker "Lazy Eyes (懶惰嘅眼)", working finances for the various illegal gambling joints and sweatshops under the command of Maurice Ng "Viet Mo (越南莫)", a Vietnam-born lawyer and civic leader, better known for his involvement in the anti-war and anti-discrimination protests in the early seventies, respectively in the early eighties. Moe Ng encouraged Yip to follow his a law degree studies and later practised under his mentorship at his private law firm in Textile City. With the demolition of Textile City for the expansion of the local industrial companies, Yip relocated in Koreatown and worked as a freelance civil, immigration and criminal speciality lawyer. He defended minorities from a cramped, one-room office in that he still inhabits to this day. 

 

He has a decades-old faded dragon tattoo on his chest, hardly visible due to age and sun exposure. He constantly dyes his hair and eyebrows in dark brown. He has diabetes, there is always an insulin pen in his favourite Hermès document leather suitcase. His go-to shoe brands are Ferragamos and Labbs.  

 

Yip is a widower and has three daughters: Anna, Marie and Quinn. He is an occasional cocaine user, hardcore smoker and brothel goer. He is still working with and for the local organised crime, he hires muscle to intimidate witnesses about to take the stand. He is involved in extortion, embezzlement and fraud through inner-city charitable works. He is a motivational speaker and a board member of the Suey Sing Association (萃勝工商會), a benevolent Chinese American association located in Koreatown. 

 

He has recently opened San Andreas Asian Youth Association (SAAYA).

 

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San Andreas Asian Youth Association (SA AYA) is a non-profit organisation that helps empower at-risk, low-income, immigrant, and adjudicated youth and families of all communities to overcome barriers to success. SA AYA serves new immigrants, as well as young people who are on probation or in foster care, with culturally and linguistically competent services in Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish and English.  Its programs combine academic tutoring, positive youth development, parent education, social learning, college and career preparation, vocational training, paid job placement, community service, recreation, and delinquency prevention initiatives.

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