Prison term ‘karma’, says Hong Kong man freed after 26 years in Philippine jail
Por Simpson Cheung — South China Morning Post – News feed
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Tang Lung-wai, 55, says he learned how to be a proper human being while locked up in Manila for a drug offence he insists he did not commit
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Simpson Cheung Published: 3:00pm, 3 Oct 2026
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 bitterness.
“At first, I felt a lot of resentment about being framed like that. But in the end, it’s no use holding onto so much resentment. Since you’re already in jail and since you cannot change what has already happened, you just have to change yourself to adapt to this environment,” he said.
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