Prison term ‘karma’, says Hong Kong man freed after 26 years in Philippine jail
On his 29th birthday, Hong Kong bartender Tang Lung-wai boarded a flight to the Philippines for a holiday that would change his life. He ended up spending 26 years in jail in the country. Now 55, Tang spent years fighting his drug-related charges, insisting that he had been framed. But he told the South China Morning Post that he did not view those lost decades solely through the lens of…
Once a 29-year-old bartender named Tang Lung-wai boarded a flight to the Philippines for a holiday, he had no idea that it would alter his life forever. He spent 26 years in a Philippine jail, where he was serving a life sentence for drug-related charges. Now 55, Tang returned to Hong Kong after being released, saying he viewed his incarceration as "karma" for being a bad person to his family and friends. He learned how to be a proper human being behind bars and considered himself to have repaid his karmic debt.
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