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Celebrating its 24th edition in 2025, the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) is North America’s leading festival of Asian cinema. It was called “the best film festival in New York” by The Village Voice and “arguably the world’s best-curated program of new and classic Asian cinema” by IndieWire. Launched in 2002, the festival showcases a wildly diverse lineup of singular titles each year, ranging from mainstream blockbusters and art-house eccentricities to genre and cult classics. It was the first North American film festival to champion the works of Johnnie To, B**g Joon Ho, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike, and other auteurs of contemporary Asian cinema. Notable festival guests have included Lee Byung-hun, Ryoo Seung-wan, Masami Nagasawa, Sammo Hung, Lee Jung-jae, and Jackie Chan. Since 2010, NYAFF has been produced in collaboration with Film at Lincoln Center.
: Where Asian Cinema Gets Dangerous
05/15/2025
The world’s most successful drug kingpin isn’t who you’d expect. While Pablo Escobar built mansions and El Chapo granted celebrity interviews, Tse Chi Lop — who today is awaiting trial in Australia — stayed hidden for more than 15 years. Until now.
His “Sam Gor” syndicate, also referred to simply as “The Company”, generated $17.7 billion in 2018 — 17 times El Chapo’s peak earnings. For the first time, our original article documents Tse’s journey; from his humble origins in Guangzhou, rising through the ranks of triads in Toronto, making fortunes from m**h labs in the hills of Myanmar, to his eventual arrest in Amsterdam.
This is the story of how global justice caught up with the invisible architect of a drug empire that spanned the world.
How Tse Chi Lop Built the World's Largest Drug Syndicate | EST Media The Company's distribution network stretched across continents, with a business guarantee reminiscent of Amazon: if authorities seized a shipment, ...
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