1.   Extortion threats and ransom demands have increased of late as the fighting abated and rival groups began fighting among themselves.

2.   The notorious TL gang that has terrorized the Tenderloin relied heavily on immigrant Vietnamese Chinese teen-agers to carry out extortion threats and other crimes, according to authorities.

3.   Police believe Bobak may be able to shed light on the extortion threat.

4.   Police had already stepped up security for Khan, Gowarikar and other film stars after they received extortion threats.

5.   Police, meanwhile, were responding to a new extortion threat against another subsidiary of Nestle, the Swiss-based food conglomerate.

6.   A bomb exploded Tuesday in a Hong Kong branch of a Japanese retail chain that recently received two extortion threats and a bomb warning, police said.

7.   A police statement said that two men had been arrested in connection with the extortion threats.

8.   A small bomb exploded Tuesday in a Hong Kong branch of a Japanese retail chain that recently received two extortion threats and a bomb warning, police said.

9.   It also noted extortion threats and physical abuse against those unwilling or unable to comply.

10.   Last week, a small bomb exploded in a branch of the Japanese retail chain Jusco, which recently received two extortion threats and a bomb warning.