Gunfire was exchanged in a hilly area early on Wednesday, Malaysian officials said, with one clan member believed to have been shot.
One of them is the Chiu clan, which from a Greater China foothold has emerged as a regional provider of subluxury accommodations.
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The billionaire Pritzker clan is taking another hit on one of its financial services holdings.
Kawakami is the 21st head of the Ban family, one of 53 that made up the Koka ninja clan.
Tensions continued to rise with the kidnapping earlier this month of dozens of Sunnis by the Lebanese Shia al-Mekdad clan in retaliation for the abduction of one of their members in Syria.
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The clan that controls the Hyatt hotels empire is one of the wealthiest in the world--but by no accounts is it the most cohesive.
The clan split into two teams: Michael was captain of one, his sister Rory the other, both wearing matching rust-colored ski suits.
The craftsmanship is passed on orally and through personal demonstration, or from one generation to another by masters teaching apprentices or relatives within a clan in accordance with strict procedures.
No one made more money on Friday than the four richest members of the Walton clan.
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You have to address their group interests, either as an ethno-religious community or as a clan or a tribal group, because they identify themselves in terms of one or more groups that they belong to.
One of the families benefiting from the foreign trade system was the Asgaroladis, an old Jewish clan of bazaar traders, who converted to Islam several generations ago.
One rabid Clans fan, a Finnish government official, organized a cruise to Stockholm for his 50 Clan friends.
Yes, a few journalists, including me, have shed some light on how they managed to build and pass along such Brobdingnagian wealth from one generation to the next and the next. (Currently, 10 members of the Pritzker clan, including Penny, are individually rich enough to be on the Forbes 400 list.) But the family has remained largely mute on the subject.
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