101 East

We join Afghan forces on the frontlines in Helmand, as they try to keep the Taliban from seizing a crucial capital.

Vietnam's young tech entrepreneurs are transforming the country into Southeast Asia's Silicon Valley.

101 East investigates the suspicious murder of a political activist in Cambodia.

101 East explores the tradition of confinement for new mothers in modern China and the growing industry behind it.

The Philippine president has been accused of ordering extrajudicial killings, but who is the man behind the headlines?

101 East investigates how every year, tens of thousands of girls and women in India are trafficked into slave marriages.

We investigate how the Australian town of Bourke is trying to save their indigenous youth from a life of crime.

A look at Japan's justice system as forced confessions and wrong convictions threaten to taint law enforcement agencies.

Agents in Myanmar are recruiting girls as young as 15 to work as domestic helpers in Singapore.

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.

We explore Asia's organ black market, from the villages of Nepal to the Indian city known as the 'Great Kidney Bazaar'.

India's elderly new mothers: Are doctors playing God, or does every woman have the right to bear a child?

Five years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster many residents are still living in a radioactive nightmare.

Romance is proving problematic for Japanese youth. Can state-sanctioned matchmaking provide the perfect love potion?

Tens of thousands of newborns are dying every year in India from antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

We go on tour in Paris with the Chinese tour groups who have joined the notorious club of the world's worst tourists

Thailand has long been a sanctuary for Chinese dissidents, but it no longer offers safety for those seeking refuge.

We investigate the dangers facing medics on the frontline in the wake of a fatal attack on a hospital in Afghanistan.

101 East investigates if Asia's budget airlines are sacrificing safety as competition for passengers heats up.

A ski industry has sprung up in the remote alps of Afghanistan. But will this enterprise survive a resurgent Taliban?

Growing opium provides vital income for thousands of families in Myanmar but the drug is devastating entire communities.

We enter the inner circle of China's new generation of elites to get an insight into a world where money is no object.

In Pakistan's tribal areas, journalists risk it all to deliver the news.

101 East dives headfirst into the debate over whether Australia is doing enough to protect swimmers from shark attacks.

Hiring private detectives to investigate lovers is big business in India as modern technology challenges tradition.

Hong Kong is one of the world's richest cities, so why are thousands of elderly residents collecting rubbish to survive?

Five Hong Kong booksellers vanish, only to surface in China. How and why did they get there?

We return to Nepal to find out how people have endured the aftermath of one of the nation's deadliest natural disasters.

Using gun power, he cleaned up his violent city. Now he wants the Filipino presidency. We join his wild ride to the top.

We follow refugees who hoped to live in Australia as they are resettled in Cambodia in a controversial transfer deal.

Can orangutan expert Leif Cocks and special jungle schools in Sumatra help save the endangered species from extinction?

101 East investigates Cambodia's healthcare system and asks if unlicensed village medics are the best hope for the sick.

India's national ice hockey team is fighting to win hearts and matches in their quest for international sporting glory.

Indonesia's drug laws are some of the strictest in the world, but are long jail terms and capital punishment working?

Australians living in the world's most fire-prone region grapple daily with a life-or-death choice: fight or flight.

South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians, but is this national obsession with alcohol reversible?

101 East examines why domestic violence touches so many Australian women and asks what is being done to turn the tide.

101 East investigates what led to the deaths of five indigenous children who went missing in the jungles of Malaysia.

101 East travels to Bangladesh to find out why young girls are often forced to marry men twice their age.

As weak law enforcement allows the Philippines' most wanted fugitives to evade capture, are bounty hunters the answer?

China's forged antiques market is booming as the country's burgeoning mega-rich unknowingly buy them up.

The insatiable appetite for antiques by China's growing nouveau riche is feeding a counterfeit industry.

As harsh laws and a string of murders target Bangladeshi bloggers, 101 East meets those risking their lives.

Can Niue, one of the world's smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?

Ahead of Myanmar's historic election, we meet activists refusing to buckle under a campaign of harassment and arrest.

We follow a medical team on Papua New Guinea's remote islands working to reduce the rate of deaths during childbirth.

Despite facing death threats and censorship, can Pakistan's musicians mend an already crippled industry?

Cambodia: Circus of Hope

101 East explores why over 300 Australian children are abducted by a parent and taken overseas every year.

101 East follows the lives of seven people in Nanjing and asks what they think of the direction their country is taking.

South Korean cuisine has taken the world by storm, but has the love for food transformed into an unhealthy obsession?

A 101 East investigation into the shadowy trade in illegal ivory and Hong Kong's role as a key conduit.

101 East investigates the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu and whether the real culprits remain at large.

101 East meets Western Australia's indigenous communities who are facing eviction from their ancestral lands.

The island nation is pinning its hopes on women to save its flagging economy.

She escaped death by firing squad with minutes to spare; now the fight is on to bring Filipina Mary Jane Veloso home.

Inspired by the rags-to-riches story of Manny Pacquiao, many Filipino fighters see boxing as a ticket out of poverty.

101 East explores how Japan's funeral industry is getting creative as the ageing nation runs out of space for the dead.

We expose the dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food industry and the widespread exploitation of foreign workers.

We follow a reptile handler-turned-scientist in his quest to save thousands of people from deadly snakebites.

101 East visits Antarctica where an extraordinary international community live, work and play together. But can it last?

In war-torn Afghanistan it is not the Taliban that poses the greatest threat to women - it is their own families.

Cancer sufferers are taking on a company they say exposed them to toxic chemicals in a landmark class action lawsuit.

Can Thailand's new animal welfare laws curb cruelty inside lucrative tiger temples, elephant parks and wildlife parks?

We follow a Vietnam war baby as she searches for her roots and finds instead a new generation of Vietnamese orphans.

101 East explores the tradition of confinement for new mothers in modern China and the growing industry behind it.

101 East follows one man's mission to restore hope to survivors of Nepal's worst natural disaster in recent history.

Can Kazakhstan become a world power and tourism hotspot despite its poor human rights record and steep prices?

Meet the Malaysians arrested under a controversial law that critics say is being used to silence government opponents.

Afghan authorities are struggling to control the resurgence in poppy farming that feeds the habits of addicts worldwide.

101 East enters the world of Sabah's stateless children, who spend their lives on the run from authorities.

101 East examines the plight of thousands of widows struggling to survive in post-war Sri Lanka.

101 East investigates the multi-billion-dollar trade in counterfeit medicines, which is creating a global health crisis.

We follow the rise of Malaysia's first professional female mixed martial artist as she faces the fight of her life.

The Chinese city of Xintang, known as the world's jeans capital, is home to an industry tainted by labour rights abuses.

One year after Flight MH370 vanished, 101 East investigates one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

101 East examines what is driving the high number of fatal road accidents in Laos and Southeast Asia.

Hundreds of Cambodian journalists make a living by uncovering news and then extorting bribes to bury the story.

Can marine scientists in Indonesia save the world's oceans with a 3D map of the most biodiverse region on earth?

101 East talks to Cambodia's fallen anti-sex trafficking icon as she fights to restore her reputation and save her NGO.

101 East explores why so many young Australians are risking their lives on the brutal front lines of Syria and Iraq.

China's jade obsession drives a multi-billion dollar black market that fuels a drug-infested jade mining industry.

With refugees at risk of abuse and exploitation in Malaysia, 101 East investigates if those in charge are doing enough.

101 East explores the human cost of the severe drought paralysing Australia’s north.

We returned to the Philippines in 2014 to see how survivors of Typhoon Haiyan were coping in the hardest-hit areas.

101 East travels to an isolated outpost of Tibetan culture in Nepal that is at risk of losing its unique way of life.

We travel to remote Manus Island in Papua New Guinea to investigate Australia's refugee detention programme.

We gain exclusive access to Taiwan's special forces and ask if the island can fend off China with a volunteer army.

With more than six million drug users and rising, can Pakistan win its fight against the billion-dollar narcotics trade?

In a country that frowns upon foster care, 33,000 children from abusive homes are growing up in state institutions.

A group of women risk life and limb to clear Laos of cluster bombs and make their country safe for future generations.

Mongolia's booming economy is growing millionaires, but what happens to those who miss out or are left behind?

What drives single mothers in South Korea to abandon their babies?

101 East delves into Korea's plastic surgery craze and uncovers the real price of pursuing physical perfection.

101 East examines how children in the Philippines are exploited when child sex predators lurk online.

101 East goes undercover to expose the hidden harm in China's food industry.

101 East heads to Silicon Valley to investigate the Asian influence on America's high-tech boom.

We meet the couples desperate for a child and the women in India who give birth to babies they will never know.

The Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are resource rich and claimed by vying countries.

A Nepalese doctor takes an Indonesian woman under his tutelage and brings the gift of sight to the world's destitute.

Malaysia’s violent ganglands are luring many ethnic indians struggling to fit into a segregated society.

As Thailand reels from its 12th military coup, what will it take to break the dangerous divide in this polarized nation?

Hong Kong’s press was once the most free in Asia, but many believe it is under attack from the central government.

The development of robots that could save lives is an unparalleled breakthrough, but what if they also could kill?

101 East looks at the rising rates of mental health problems among Australian veterans of the war in Afghanistan.

"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."

A two-part series follows ethnic Nepalese after they were expelled by Bhutan and found themselves stateless.

After Singapore's first riot in decades, locals ask hard questions about the migrant worker abuse.

As witch-hunts and sorcery killings spread across Papua New Guinea, 101 East investigates shocking human rights abuses.

101 East goes on the campaign trail with Narendra Modi, the man tipped to be the next Prime Minister of India.

101 East explores methamphetamine abuse in Australia often resulting in violent assaults and mental health breakdowns.

We go behind the scenes with the man tipped to become Indonesia's next president – governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo.

As saltwater crocodiles stalk Australia's waterways, we investigate if they should be culled to curb attacks on humans.

Deadly clashes between poor garment workers and police are threatening to cripple Cambodia's largest export industry.

Thailand's Moken tribe foresaw and survived the 2004 tsunami, but are the traditions that saved them being abandoned?

We join an annual tribal dolphin hunt in the Solomon Islands and ask whether this ancient practice should be stopped.

We explore the plight of thousands of children working in the dangerous coal mines of India’s Meghalaya state.

We venture into the crime-ridden neighbourhoods of the Philippines to examine if a new law can get rid of gun violence.

Neglected and mistreated, endangered animals are dying inside Indonesia's disease-ridden Surabaya Zoo.

"Indonesia is the world’s biggest tin exporter but for poverty stricken miners, the costs are deadly. "

We investigate the long-term effects of the 2011 tsunami, including a potential cancer threat for Fukushima's children.