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29 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
With weak law enforcement allowing the Philippines' most wanted fugitives to evade capture, are bounty hunters the country's best hope for justice?
Episode 2
In Bangladesh child marriage is illegal but common. 101 East enters a world where young girls are forced to marry men as old as their grandfathers.
Episode 3
Seven little indigenous children disappeared from their village in Malaysia. Only two made it home alive. 101 East asks, what were they running from?
Episode 4
101 East examines why domestic violence touches so many Australian women and asks what is being done to turn the tide.
Episode 5
South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians, but is this national obsession with alcohol reversible?
Episode 7
Australians living in the world's most fire-prone region grapple daily with a life-or-death choice: fight or flight.
Episode 8
Indonesia's drug laws are some of the strictest in the world, but are long jail terms and capital punishment working?
Episode 9
In cricket-crazy India, the unknown national ice hockey team is fighting to win hearts and tournaments in their quest for international sporting glory.
Episode 10
Cambodia suffers a severe shortage of doctors. Are unlicensed physicians lifesavers for the rural poor - or are they their worst nightmare?
Episode 12
They call him the "orangutan whisperer". Leif Cocks is a former zookeeper from Australia who has dedicated his life to reintroducing endangered orangutans into the wild, something previously thought impossible. At a jungle school in Sumatra, Indonesia, rescued orangutans practice climbing, foraging and fending for themselves in the forests. Cocks has successfully reintroduced 180 of these animals and plans to save 8,000 more over the next decade. "My goal is to save enough habitat that we can have 8,000 orangutans protected in reserves that we are looking after. And that will secure the species. That's my goal. That's at least a decent way of spending one's life." So can Leif Cocks and his jungle schools help to save the endangered species from extinction?
Episode 13
101 East follows refugees who'd hoped to live in Australia, as they're resettled in impoverished Cambodia instead in a controversial transfer deal.
Episode 14
He cleaned up his violent city using gun power. Now Rodrigo Duterte is gunning for the Filipino presidency. 101 East joins his wild ride to the top.
Episode 15
101 East returns to Nepal to find out how people have survived the aftermath of one of the country's deadliest natural disasters.
Episode 16
Five Hong Kong booksellers vanish, only to resurface in China. How and why did they get there?
Episode 18
Hong Kong is one of the world's wealthiest cities, so why are thousands of elderly residents collecting rubbish to survive?
Episode 22
In one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, 101 East meets those risking it all to deliver the news to Pakistan's tribal areas.
Episode 23
101 East enters the inner circle of China's new generation of elites to find out what goes on in a world where money is no object.
Episode 28
101 East investigates the dangers facing medics on the fontline in the wake of a fatal attack on a hospital in Afghanistan.
Episode 29
Thailand was once a safe haven for Chinese dissidents, but they're finding themselves in peril as the two countries forge closer ties.
Episode 30
101 East goes on tour in Paris with the Chinese tour groups who have joined the notorious club of the world's worst tourists.
Episode 32
Tens of thousands of newborns are dying every year in India from antibiotic-resistant superbugs, as health officials warn of a global threat.
Episode 33
Dating and romance are proving problematic for many young Japanese. Could state-sanctioned matchmaking provide the perfect love potion?
Episode 35
India's elderly new mothers: Are doctors playing God, or does every woman have the right to bear a child?
Episode 37
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.
Episode 39
Agents in Myanmar are recruiting girls as young as 15 to work as domestic helpers in Singapore.
Episode 40
Japan's criminal justice system is under scrutiny as reports of forced confessions and wrongful convictions threaten to taint law enforcement agencies.
Episode 45
101 East investigates how every year, tens of thousands of girls and women in India are trafficked into slave marriages.
Episode 46
Six months after the Philippines elected Rodrigo Duterte president, 101 East investigates his tumultuous rule.
Episode 47
101 East investigates the sinister world of baby selling in Malaysia, where infants are sold to the highest bidder.