101 East — 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.