Undercover Asia — Season 4
Channel NewsAsia's award-winning investigative series returns for a fourth season as we go undercover to expose the secret underbelly of Asia. Through in-depth, hard-hitting documentaries, we explore
About this season
Channel NewsAsia's award-winning investigative series returns for a fourth season as we go undercover to expose the secret underbelly of Asia. Through in-depth, hard-hitting documentaries, we explore stories of crime, violence and injustice. This season, we track down mistress busters in China, expose a gang of vigilantes out to bust the drug trade in Myanmar and investigate an epidemic of elderly deaths in Japan. Find out the untold stories lurking within the hidden fabric of our own societies.
Episodes (9)
1. To Hunt A Paedophile
Aired 21 April 2017 • 47 min
Richard Huckle is one of the world's most heinous child sexual predators. He is guilty of almost 100 counts of child sexual abuses in Malaysia. His exploits were anonymously put onto the dark web for pedophiles from all over the world. This online presence would lead to his arrest.
2. Lonely Deaths
Aired 28 April 2017 • 45 min
40,000 people in Japan die alone in their homes every year. We will follow Hirotsugu Masuda the CEO of a specialist 'Lonely Death' cleaning company, as he and his team go on the job.
3. Kidnapped - Abu Sayyaf
Aired 5 May 2017 • 48 min
Despite his own ordeal at the hands of Abu Sayyaf, journalist Baker Atyani returns to the Philippines to find out why they are prospering. As he tries to search for a negotiator for the latest victims, a breakthrough comes when he meets intelligence officers searching for Baker's own abductors.
4. Unholy Hands
Aired 12 May 2017 • 46 min
India is facing a massive crisis in its healthcare sector. There is approximately 1 registered doctor for every 1700 patients. This severe shortage of qualified doctors, an ineffective public healthcare system, lack of legal enforcement and corruption has lead to the rampant growth of quacks in the country.
5. Manufactured Orphans
Aired 19 May 2017 • 48 min
Nearly 90% of the estimated 143 million children in orphanages worldwide are not orphans at all. They are systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families. The adoption industry is a huge market driven by money where orphans are ‘manufactured’.
6. Duterte's Drug War
Aired 26 May 2017 • 45 min
Undercover Asia goes inside President Duterte's war on drugs and uncovers stories of Filipinos who are brutally affected by a campaign that has claimed more than 7000 lives by Jan 2017. Will a merciless war on drug addicts and dealers solve the problems of the Philippines?
7. Mistress Busters
Aired 2 June 2017 • 46 min
In China, divorce rates have almost doubled in the last decade, with many couples splitting up due to a third party. With more married men taking up lovers and mistresses, China is seeing the rise of an unexpected industry – professional Mistress Busters who are hired by wives to save their marriage.
8. Drug Vigilantes
Aired 9 June 2017 • 48 min
Myanmar’s vast and illicit drugs trade is devastating local communities in the country’s war-torn border regions. ‘Drug Vigilantes’ follows a fast growing movement of militant Christian vigilantes trying to fight back against this deadly trade, into a chaotic world of addiction, fear and violence.
9. In The Name Of Honour
Aired 16 June 2017 • 45 min
In Pakistan, over 1000 women are killed every year in the name of honour – and one case made the world take notice. Social media star, Qandeel Baloch’s bold and sexy videos challenged convention and shocked a nation. But in conservative Pakistan, a woman’s actions can have fatal consequences.