Meet the artists behind your favorite Hong Kong Gangster films. Cowman, Wen Qiming, took the Hong Kong cinema to a whole new level with his 古惑仔 (Young and Dangerous) comic series. His story comes from what he's seen and the life he lives everyday, pulling references from real gangsters, his friends, and his city. “All of my Triad friends had tragic or fatal ends.” - Cowman

Climate change is here and Kyrgyzstan's century-old glaciers are melting. This was the second glacier collapse of the week. On July 3rd, Eleven hikers died from an avalanche caused by falling glacier chunks as large as an apartment building in Italy’s Dolomites region. The country has more than 8,000 glaciers that are receding at an alarming rate. If this continues to happen by 2050, the volume of water could be down by 12%, and by 2100 by 44%. This is devastating for millions in Central Asia who get 70% of their water from glaciers and natural water reserves. The world was struck with extreme heat with temperatures well over 40 degrees celsius in China and the UK issued a red heat warning for the first time ever. Researchers say these events underline the dangers of a rapidly warming world and are expected to increase unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed.

Who is Jack Ma? He is known as one of the wealthiest tech giants of the world after founding multiple Chinese companies like Alibaba, Alipay, and Taobao. But what people don’t know, is that Jack was rejected from everything he applied to, including 10 rejections from Harvard. How did this man, who knows nothing about tech and started his career as a tour guide, go on to have the biggest public offering in history at $21B USD..? Watch to find out.

While you’re trying to cope with your insane family chat on WhatsApp and Facebook, animal smugglers are creating hundreds of groups where animals are bought and sold. Facebook search any country and exotic animal and you’ll find groups dedicated to finding endangered pets in any nation. As the world’s 4th largest illegal trade after drugs, human trafficking and counterfeiting, South and South East Asia’s literal and metaphorical appetite for exotic animals and their parts amount to a 20-23 Billion Dollar industry. This harms the animals and our planet. Southeast Asia experiences the world’s fastest rate of deforestation, and an increase of illegal wildlife trafficking will only make things monumentally worse for its biodiversity. The Asian Elephant population has already declined by 50% over the past century. Hundreds of species are likely to go extinct if the trade goes on unchecked. Joy Jeong explains how animals are trafficked, and how activists are tackling the industry.

When the government fails to protect, you turn to each other. This has always been the case, and in the 60s and 70s, the Asian civil rights movement was gaining momentum. Young Asian people were demanding equal rights, promoting anti-war and anti-imperialism during the Vietnam War, and building community with Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people of the United States. Since the Black civil rights campaigns that sparked the civil rights discourse, New Yorkers like Sunny Moy used his voice to fix issues in Chinatown. Sunny says that his era of civil rights protestors knew each other because there weren’t many Chinese Immigrants in Chinatown. When it comes to the difference between the 60s vs. now Sunny says, “We got more Asian kids who are highly educated, more than any other time in America. They should speak up more, and organize rallies.” Current day New York - Asians like Jack Lang and Oliver Pras are leading Stop Asian Hate rallies and redirecting politician’s attention to priorities Asian lives. Jack and Oliver felt that seeing Asian Hate crimes in their Chinatown - a safe haven for Asians- radicalized them. Young New Yorkers are banding once again to build a collective that won’t be overlooked by politicians that are supposed to be in their best interest.

The Hungry Ghost Festival, also known as the Getai Festival, is an ancient part of Taoist culture where spirits are honored. It happens every year, during a time when the gates of the afterlife are believed to open up for a month and our spiritual ancestors come out to partake once more in the life they once lived. This festival is special, because here the entertainers are singing not just for the living, but also for the dead. Family members bow to shrines of their ancestors and people perform for wandering spirits. There is bias beneath the surface of a seemingly harmless festival: Getai singers are often stigmatized as lowly and disreputable. Some younger members of the Getai community are trying to change that, with genuine passion and appreciation for their culture and ancestors, as they sing and dance for those they cannot even see.