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20 Episodes 2020 - 2020
Episode 3
101 East investigates Indian villages where it is custom for parents to sell their young daughters for sex.
Episode 8
101 East meets the first responders saving Australia's wildlife from the country's worst bushfires.
Episode 12
101 East examines why more people are withdrawing from society in Japan.
Episode 14
As thousands of young Nepalese men battle through grueling physical tests, 101 East discovers what it takes to become a Gurkha.
Episode 16
Myanmar's government is on trial in the International Court of Justice, accused of orchestrating a campaign of destruction against the Rohingya people. 101 East has now obtained secretly filmed footage of killings that took place during a brutal army crackdown that led to hundreds of thousands of people fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh.
Episode 18
101 East asks why more and more families from Europe, UK and Australia are sending their elderly to care homes in Thailand to spend their dying days
Episode 20
Vietnam is famous for its delicious food. But at a cooking school in Hanoi, the focus is on more than filling stomachs. For the teenagers who attend KOTO, an internationally recognized hospitality boarding school in the Vietnamese capital, the kitchen offers a path out of poverty - one dish at a time. "My parents both passed away at a very young age," says Duong, who grew up in Vietnam's rural heartland. "I can't afford to study, or even to live, so I decided to apply to KOTO." The school teaches disadvantaged young people cooking and helps them find jobs in Vietnam's best hotels and restaurants. "If I didn't have the chance to study cooking at this school, the opportunities for me to find a job in this country are very limited. I'd have to go overseas to get a job," says Duong. More than 700 students have passed through KOTO since its Australian-Vietnamese founder, Jimmy Pham, opened the doors 20 years ago. When he first set up the school, the students came from Hanoi's streets. Today, they are from Vietnam's minority ethnic groups, orphans, gangs and victims of abuse and broken families. But he insists the organization is not a charity. "It's a hand up, not hand out," says Pham. "People have to be empowered." 101 East visits the cooking school serving up hope to Vietnam's disadvantaged and downtrodden.
Episode 22
101 East investigates the unfolding humanitarian crisis in India, where COVID-19 infections are rising and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown.
Episode 26
West Papua is home to Asia's largest remaining rainforests, indigenous communities and unique species. But this exclusive 101 East investigation reveals how Korean-run companies are allegedly engaging in questionable deals as they buy up forests to develop palm oil plantations. Featuring rare access to a restive Indonesian province usually off-limits to journalists, we meet tribesmen who allege that Posco International and Korindo are plundering their land for a pittance. Both companies deny all allegations including fraud and human rights abuses. Selling Out West Papua was produced in collaboration with Mongabay, The Gecko Project and the Korea Centre for Investigative Journalism.
Episode 27
101 East investigates why the COVID-19 pandemic is exposing migrant workers - the backbone of Malaysia's economy - to deadly risks.
Episode 29
101 East explores the challenges faced by immigrant Filipino nurses at the front line of New York's battle against Covid-19.
Episode 31
Fri, Jul 31, 2020
Episode 38
Thailand is the first in Asia to legalise medical marijuana. Supporters promise it will alleviate poverty and even cure cancer. 101 East investigates.
Episode 42
101 East follows Asian Americans who are bearing the brunt of rising tensions between the US and China.
Episode 44
As the Black Lives Matter movement spreads across the globe, 101 East investigates Australia's indigenous incarceration crisis.
Episode 45
101 East investigates why so many indigenous children end up behind bars in Australia, some as young as 10 years old.
Episode 47
The abduction of a Thai activist in Cambodia has sparked anger and calls for justice for him and those missing before him. 101 East investigates
Episode 49
As covert filming soars in South Korea, 101 East joins the hunt to expose the spycams hidden everywhere from schools to hotels.
Episode 50
101 East follows an artist's journey as he shines a spotlight on controversial issues facing China and confronts his own personal dilemma.
Episode 51
101 East investigates whether Singapore's hawker food culture can survive the COVID-19 pandemic.