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Bold, untold stories from across Asia and the Pacific. Al Jazeera's in-depth, weekly current affairs programme from the world's most populated region.
2007
Teymoor Nabili looks at how the Thai government is butting heads with the multinational pharmaceutical giants.
Season 5 of 101 East premiered on Sept, 2015.
2014
We investigate the long-term effects of the 2011 tsunami, including a potential cancer threat for Fukushima's children.
"Indonesia is the world’s biggest tin exporter but for poverty stricken miners, the costs are deadly. "
Neglected and mistreated, endangered animals are dying inside Indonesia's disease-ridden Surabaya Zoo.
We venture into the crime-ridden neighbourhoods of the Philippines to examine if a new law can get rid of gun violence.
We explore the plight of thousands of children working in the dangerous coal mines of India’s Meghalaya state.
We join an annual tribal dolphin hunt in the Solomon Islands and ask whether this ancient practice should be stopped.
Thailand's Moken tribe foresaw and survived the 2004 tsunami, but are the traditions that saved them being abandoned?
Deadly clashes between poor garment workers and police are threatening to cripple Cambodia's largest export industry.
As saltwater crocodiles stalk Australia's waterways, we investigate if they should be culled to curb attacks on humans.
We go behind the scenes with the man tipped to become Indonesia's next president – governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo.
101 East explores methamphetamine abuse in Australia often resulting in violent assaults and mental health breakdowns.
101 East goes on the campaign trail with Narendra Modi, the man tipped to be the next Prime Minister of India.
As witch-hunts and sorcery killings spread across Papua New Guinea, 101 East investigates shocking human rights abuses.
After Singapore's first riot in decades, locals ask hard questions about the migrant worker abuse.
A two-part series follows ethnic Nepalese after they were expelled by Bhutan and found themselves stateless.
"In the second of a two-part special on ‘Bhutan’s Forgotten People’, 101 East follows Sabitra Biswa as she leaves a refugee camp in Nepal for a new life in the United States. Sabitra was one of 100,000 ethnic Nepalese forced out of Bhutan in the early 1990s in what many describe as systematic ethnic cleansing."
101 East looks at the rising rates of mental health problems among Australian veterans of the war in Afghanistan.
The development of robots that could save lives is an unparalleled breakthrough, but what if they also could kill?
Hong Kong’s press was once the most free in Asia, but many believe it is under attack from the central government.
As Thailand reels from its 12th military coup, what will it take to break the dangerous divide in this polarized nation?
Malaysia’s violent ganglands are luring many ethnic indians struggling to fit into a segregated society.
A Nepalese doctor takes an Indonesian woman under his tutelage and brings the gift of sight to the world's destitute.
The Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are resource rich and claimed by vying countries.
We meet the couples desperate for a child and the women in India who give birth to babies they will never know.
101 East heads to Silicon Valley to investigate the Asian influence on America's high-tech boom.
101 East goes undercover to expose the hidden harm in China's food industry.
101 East examines how children in the Philippines are exploited when child sex predators lurk online.
101 East delves into Korea's plastic surgery craze and uncovers the real price of pursuing physical perfection.
What drives single mothers in South Korea to abandon their babies?
Mongolia's booming economy is growing millionaires, but what happens to those who miss out or are left behind?
A group of women risk life and limb to clear Laos of cluster bombs and make their country safe for future generations.
In a country that frowns upon foster care, 33,000 children from abusive homes are growing up in state institutions.
With more than six million drug users and rising, can Pakistan win its fight against the billion-dollar narcotics trade?
We gain exclusive access to Taiwan's special forces and ask if the island can fend off China with a volunteer army.
We travel to remote Manus Island in Papua New Guinea to investigate Australia's refugee detention programme.
101 East travels to an isolated outpost of Tibetan culture in Nepal that is at risk of losing its unique way of life.
We returned to the Philippines in 2014 to see how survivors of Typhoon Haiyan were coping in the hardest-hit areas.
101 East explores the human cost of the severe drought paralysing Australia’s north.
With refugees at risk of abuse and exploitation in Malaysia, 101 East investigates if those in charge are doing enough.
China's jade obsession drives a multi-billion dollar black market that fuels a drug-infested jade mining industry.
Stalkers are terrorising more and more women across the country, with 21,000 cases reported to police in 2013.
As scandals involving misbehaving monks rock the nation, 101 East examines if Thailand can save its moral soul.
101 East follows the trail of illegal poachers who risk it all for the exotic hardwood, driving a species to extinction.
2017
Confronted with a shortage of women, men in the Faroe Islands are increasingly seeking wives from Southeast Asia. But what's it like for the women who swap the tropics for this windswept archipelago?
2015
101 East explores why so many young Australians are risking their lives on the brutal front lines of Syria and Iraq.
101 East talks to Cambodia's fallen anti-sex trafficking icon as she fights to restore her reputation and save her NGO.
Can marine scientists in Indonesia save the world's oceans with a 3D map of the most biodiverse region on earth?
Hundreds of Cambodian journalists make a living by uncovering news and then extorting bribes to bury the story.
101 East examines what is driving the high number of fatal road accidents in Laos and Southeast Asia.
One year after Flight MH370 vanished, 101 East investigates one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.
The Chinese city of Xintang, known as the world's jeans capital, is home to an industry tainted by labour rights abuses.
We follow the rise of Malaysia's first professional female mixed martial artist as she faces the fight of her life.
101 East investigates the multi-billion-dollar trade in counterfeit medicines, which is creating a global health crisis.
101 East examines the plight of thousands of widows struggling to survive in post-war Sri Lanka.
101 East enters the world of Sabah's stateless children, who spend their lives on the run from authorities.
Afghan authorities are struggling to control the resurgence in poppy farming that feeds the habits of addicts worldwide.
Meet the Malaysians arrested under a controversial law that critics say is being used to silence government opponents.
Can Kazakhstan become a world power and tourism hotspot despite its poor human rights record and steep prices?
101 East follows one man's mission to restore hope to survivors of Nepal's worst natural disaster in recent history.
101 East explores the tradition of confinement for new mothers in modern China and the growing industry behind it.
We follow a Vietnam war baby as she searches for her roots and finds instead a new generation of Vietnamese orphans.
Can Thailand's new animal welfare laws curb cruelty inside lucrative tiger temples, elephant parks and wildlife parks?
Cancer sufferers are taking on a company they say exposed them to toxic chemicals in a landmark class action lawsuit.
In war-torn Afghanistan it is not the Taliban that poses the greatest threat to women - it is their own families.
101 East visits Antarctica where an extraordinary international community live, work and play together. But can it last?
We follow a reptile handler-turned-scientist in his quest to save thousands of people from deadly snakebites.
We expose the dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food industry and the widespread exploitation of foreign workers.
101 East explores how Japan's funeral industry is getting creative as the ageing nation runs out of space for the dead.
Inspired by the rags-to-riches story of Manny Pacquiao, many Filipino fighters see boxing as a ticket out of poverty.
She escaped death by firing squad with minutes to spare; now the fight is on to bring Filipina Mary Jane Veloso home.
The island nation is pinning its hopes on women to save its flagging economy.
101 East meets Western Australia's indigenous communities who are facing eviction from their ancestral lands.
101 East investigates the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu and whether the real culprits remain at large.
A 101 East investigation into the shadowy trade in illegal ivory and Hong Kong's role as a key conduit.
South Korean cuisine has taken the world by storm, but has the love for food transformed into an unhealthy obsession?
101 East follows the lives of seven people in Nanjing and asks what they think of the direction their country is taking.
101 East explores why over 300 Australian children are abducted by a parent and taken overseas every year.
Cambodia: Circus of Hope
Despite facing death threats and censorship, can Pakistan's musicians mend an already crippled industry?
We follow a medical team on Papua New Guinea's remote islands working to reduce the rate of deaths during childbirth.
Ahead of Myanmar's historic election, we meet activists refusing to buckle under a campaign of harassment and arrest.
Can Niue, one of the world's smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
As harsh laws and a string of murders target Bangladeshi bloggers, 101 East meets those risking their lives.
The insatiable appetite for antiques by China's growing nouveau riche is feeding a counterfeit industry.
China's forged antiques market is booming as the country's burgeoning mega-rich unknowingly buy them up.
101 East meets the mothers and children living with the tragic consequences of drinking alcohol when pregnant.
As thousands of Chinese are hunting for their dream homes abroad, we investigate the impact of their shopping spree.
We track down companies accused of being behind Indonesia's deadly fires that have caused a global environmental crisis.
Is anti-Islamic sentiment threatening Australia's celebrated multicultural identity?
2016
As weak law enforcement allows the Philippines' most wanted fugitives to evade capture, are bounty hunters the answer?
101 East travels to Bangladesh to find out why young girls are often forced to marry men twice their age.
101 East investigates what led to the deaths of five indigenous children who went missing in the jungles of Malaysia.
101 East examines why domestic violence touches so many Australian women and asks what is being done to turn the tide.
South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians, but is this national obsession with alcohol reversible?
Australians living in the world's most fire-prone region grapple daily with a life-or-death choice: fight or flight.
Indonesia's drug laws are some of the strictest in the world, but are long jail terms and capital punishment working?
India's national ice hockey team is fighting to win hearts and matches in their quest for international sporting glory.
101 East investigates Cambodia's healthcare system and asks if unlicensed village medics are the best hope for the sick.
Can orangutan expert Leif Cocks and special jungle schools in Sumatra help save the endangered species from extinction?
We follow refugees who hoped to live in Australia as they are resettled in Cambodia in a controversial transfer deal.
Using gun power, he cleaned up his violent city. Now he wants the Filipino presidency. We join his wild ride to the top.
We return to Nepal to find out how people have endured the aftermath of one of the nation's deadliest natural disasters.
Five Hong Kong booksellers vanish, only to surface in China. How and why did they get there?
Hong Kong is one of the world's richest cities, so why are thousands of elderly residents collecting rubbish to survive?
Hiring private detectives to investigate lovers is big business in India as modern technology challenges tradition.
101 East dives headfirst into the debate over whether Australia is doing enough to protect swimmers from shark attacks.
In Pakistan's tribal areas, journalists risk it all to deliver the news.
We enter the inner circle of China's new generation of elites to get an insight into a world where money is no object.
Growing opium provides vital income for thousands of families in Myanmar but the drug is devastating entire communities.
A ski industry has sprung up in the remote alps of Afghanistan. But will this enterprise survive a resurgent Taliban?
101 East investigates if Asia's budget airlines are sacrificing safety as competition for passengers heats up.
We investigate the dangers facing medics on the frontline in the wake of a fatal attack on a hospital in Afghanistan.
Thailand has long been a sanctuary for Chinese dissidents, but it no longer offers safety for those seeking refuge.
We go on tour in Paris with the Chinese tour groups who have joined the notorious club of the world's worst tourists
Tens of thousands of newborns are dying every year in India from antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
Romance is proving problematic for Japanese youth. Can state-sanctioned matchmaking provide the perfect love potion?
Five years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster many residents are still living in a radioactive nightmare.
India's elderly new mothers: Are doctors playing God, or does every woman have the right to bear a child?
We explore Asia's organ black market, from the villages of Nepal to the Indian city known as the 'Great Kidney Bazaar'.
As time is running out for China to pay off its bad debts, 101 East investigates if this could be the end of China Inc.
Agents in Myanmar are recruiting girls as young as 15 to work as domestic helpers in Singapore.
A look at Japan's justice system as forced confessions and wrong convictions threaten to taint law enforcement agencies.
We investigate how the Australian town of Bourke is trying to save their indigenous youth from a life of crime.
101 East investigates how every year, tens of thousands of girls and women in India are trafficked into slave marriages.
The Philippine president has been accused of ordering extrajudicial killings, but who is the man behind the headlines?
101 East investigates the sinister world of baby selling in Malaysia, where infants are sold to the highest bidder.
Millions of China's children are growing up without their parents. We look at the struggles of a generation left behind.
101 East travels into Ghana's tropical rainforest where 30,000 Chinese miners hunt for gold.
Young skilled South Koreans throw away their careers for manual jobs overseas to flee the pressures of life at home.
2017
101 East explores the tradition of confinement for new mothers in modern China and the growing industry behind it.
101 East investigates the suspicious murder of a political activist in Cambodia.
Vietnam's young tech entrepreneurs are transforming the country into Southeast Asia's Silicon Valley.
We join Afghan forces on the frontlines in Helmand, as they try to keep the Taliban from seizing a crucial capital.
Is India's crackdown on Kashmiri protesters creating new generation of young fighters?
101 East investigates sexual misconduct inside the most powerful institution in the Philippines - the Catholic Church.
101 East goes inside the Dalit protest movement threatening to end centuries of repression and shake the foundations of India’s social structure.
101 East investigates the fate of four young girls in Pakistan, where honour killings are endemic and modern technology is challenging old beliefs.
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