About this season
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.
Episodes (40)
1. The Bounty Hunters
Aired 6 January 2016 • 30 min
As weak law enforcement allows the Philippines' most wanted fugitives to evade capture, are bounty hunters the answer?
2. Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Bangladesh
Aired 14 January 2016 • 30 min
101 East travels to Bangladesh to find out why young girls are often forced to marry men twice their age.
3. Out of Sight: Malaysia's Orang Asli
Aired 21 January 2016 • 30 min
101 East investigates what led to the deaths of five indigenous children who went missing in the jungles of Malaysia.
4. Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in Australia
Aired 28 January 2016 • 30 min
101 East examines why domestic violence touches so many Australian women and asks what is being done to turn the tide.
5. South Korea's Hangover
Aired 4 February 2016 • 30 min
South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians, but is this national obsession with alcohol reversible?
6. Australia: In the Line of Fire
Aired 18 February 2016 • 30 min
Australians living in the world's most fire-prone region grapple daily with a life-or-death choice: fight or flight.
7. Inside Indonesia's Drug War
Aired 25 February 2016 • 30 min
Indonesia's drug laws are some of the strictest in the world, but are long jail terms and capital punishment working?
8. On Thin Ice: India's National Ice Hockey Team
Aired 3 March 2016 • 30 min
India's national ice hockey team is fighting to win hearts and matches in their quest for international sporting glory.
9. Cambodia: Unlicensed to Heal
Aired 10 March 2016 • 30 min
101 East investigates Cambodia's healthcare system and asks if unlicensed village medics are the best hope for the sick.
10. The Orangutan Whisperer
Aired 24 March 2016 • 30 min
Can orangutan expert Leif Cocks and special jungle schools in Sumatra help save the endangered species from extinction?
11. Cambodia, My New Home
Aired 31 March 2016 • 30 min
We follow refugees who hoped to live in Australia as they are resettled in Cambodia in a controversial transfer deal.
12. Rodrigo Duterte: Guns, Goons and the Presidency
Aired 7 April 2016 • 30 min
Using gun power, he cleaned up his violent city. Now he wants the Filipino presidency. We join his wild ride to the top.
13. Nepal: After the Earthquake
Aired 14 April 2016 • 30 min
We return to Nepal to find out how people have endured the aftermath of one of the nation's deadliest natural disasters.
14. Hong Kong's Missing Booksellers
Aired 21 April 2016 • 30 min
Five Hong Kong booksellers vanish, only to surface in China. How and why did they get there?
15. Hong Kong: Aged and Abandoned
Aired 5 May 2016 • 30 min
Hong Kong is one of the world's richest cities, so why are thousands of elderly residents collecting rubbish to survive?
16. India's Love Detectives
Aired 12 May 2016 • 30 min
Hiring private detectives to investigate lovers is big business in India as modern technology challenges tradition.
17. Shark Alarm: Protecting Australia's Swimmers
Aired 19 May 2016 • 30 min
101 East dives headfirst into the debate over whether Australia is doing enough to protect swimmers from shark attacks.
18. Good Morning Pakistan: Journalists Under Threat
Aired 2 June 2016 • 30 min
In Pakistan's tribal areas, journalists risk it all to deliver the news.
19. China's Rich Girls
Aired 9 June 2016 • 30 min
We enter the inner circle of China's new generation of elites to get an insight into a world where money is no object.
20. Myanmar's Poppylands
Aired 16 June 2016 • 30 min
Growing opium provides vital income for thousands of families in Myanmar but the drug is devastating entire communities.
21. Afghanistan's Slippery Slopes
Aired 23 June 2016 • 30 min
A ski industry has sprung up in the remote alps of Afghanistan. But will this enterprise survive a resurgent Taliban?
22. How Safe are Asia's Airlines?
Aired 7 July 2016 • 30 min
101 East investigates if Asia's budget airlines are sacrificing safety as competition for passengers heats up.
23. Afghanistan: Medics Under Fire
Aired 14 July 2016 • 30 min
We investigate the dangers facing medics on the frontline in the wake of a fatal attack on a hospital in Afghanistan.
24. No Safe Haven: Chinese Dissidents Living in Fear
Aired 21 July 2016 • 30 min
Thailand has long been a sanctuary for Chinese dissidents, but it no longer offers safety for those seeking refuge.
25. How to be a Chinese Tourist
Aired 28 July 2016 • 30 min
We go on tour in Paris with the Chinese tour groups who have joined the notorious club of the world's worst tourists
26. The Rise of India's superbugs
Aired 11 August 2016 • 30 min
Tens of thousands of newborns are dying every year in India from antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
27. Finding Love In Japan
Aired 18 August 2016 • 30 min
Romance is proving problematic for Japanese youth. Can state-sanctioned matchmaking provide the perfect love potion?
28. Inside Fukushima's Time Bomb
Aired 25 August 2016 • 30 min
Five years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster many residents are still living in a radioactive nightmare.
29. India's Miracle Babies
Aired 1 September 2016 • 30 min
India's elderly new mothers: Are doctors playing God, or does every woman have the right to bear a child?
30. Asia's Kidney Black Market
Aired 8 September 2016 • 30 min
We explore Asia's organ black market, from the villages of Nepal to the Indian city known as the 'Great Kidney Bazaar'.
31. The End of China Inc?
Aired 15 September 2016 • 30 min
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.
32. Maid in Singapore
Aired 29 September 2016 • 30 min
Agents in Myanmar are recruiting girls as young as 15 to work as domestic helpers in Singapore.
33. Japan: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Aired 6 October 2016 • 30 min
A look at Japan's justice system as forced confessions and wrong convictions threaten to taint law enforcement agencies.
34. Hope for Australia's Indigenous
Aired 20 October 2016 • 30 min
We investigate how the Australian town of Bourke is trying to save their indigenous youth from a life of crime.
35. India's Slave Brides
Aired 10 November 2016 • 30 min
101 East investigates how every year, tens of thousands of girls and women in India are trafficked into slave marriages.
36. Rodrigo Duterte: The President's Report Card
Aired 17 November 2016 • 30 min
The Philippine president has been accused of ordering extrajudicial killings, but who is the man behind the headlines?
37. Malaysia: Babies for Sale
Aired 24 November 2016 • 30 min
101 East investigates the sinister world of baby selling in Malaysia, where infants are sold to the highest bidder.
38. China's Left-Behind Generation
Aired 1 December 2016 • 30 min
Millions of China's children are growing up without their parents. We look at the struggles of a generation left behind.
39. China's African Gold Rush
Aired 15 December 2016 • 30 min
101 East travels into Ghana's tropical rainforest where 30,000 Chinese miners hunt for gold.
40. Fleeing South Korea
Aired 29 December 2016 • 30 min
Young skilled South Koreans throw away their careers for manual jobs overseas to flee the pressures of life at home.