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38 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 2
Is coal seam gas the answer to Australia's energy prayers or a high-stakes gamble that could wreak havoc on its environment, farmers and future?
Episode 3
The Philippines is emerging as a great outsourcing nation for cost efficiency, but are there limits to its success?
Episode 4
101 East meets the survivors of witch-hunts in India and asks what is being done to stop the brutal practice.
Episode 7
Jakarta is suffering its worst flood in recent years. Can the city ever root out the problems that cause this destruction after every monsoon season?
Episode 8
101 East investigates why Indonesia's education system is one of the worst in the world.
Episode 9
A battle is brewing on Easter island as the indigenous Rapanui fight for independence. Will they win the fight against Chilean colonisers?
Episode 10
Nobody can say for sure how long the practice of gang raping (or bauk) prostitutes has been known in Cambodia. Tong Soprach, who has been interviewing victims and perpetrators for the CARE International Playing Safe Project (PSP), says the word bauk seems to have appeared in the language in 1998, but he first heard about the practice at high school in 1996.
Episode 12
Blasphemy charges have fatal consequences in Pakistan but a determined few are risking their lives to protect the accused and press for reform.
Episode 13
In this edition, 101 East explores the trail of manta gills from the seas to the shops and investigates how humans threaten the existence of one of the most graceful creatures in the ocean. How long can the manta population survive?
Episode 14
101 East looks at whether the fragile peace between Myanmar's government and its ethnic groups will last.
Episode 15
Australia is holding a judicial inquiry into decades of child sexual abuse and alleged cover-ups by the Catholic Church. Will justice be served?
Episode 16
Facing a raft of contentious domestic issues, Malaysia is going to the polls. But can the government weather a growing opposition onslaught?
Episode 18
Singapore is the world's richest country but with locals struggling to keep up with the rising cost of living, is the party set to end?
Episode 19
Environmentalists race to save the world's largest coal reef as it risks being put on UNESCO's World Heritage danger list due to mining expansions.
Episode 20
Huge advances in health care mean many Australians face a painful, medicalised, drawn-out death. Could voluntary euthanasia be the solution?
Episode 21
101 East takes an exclusive peek inside Yangon's iconic colonial buildings and golden pagodas in Myanmar, amid a fight to fend off the bulldozers.
Episode 22
On the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest, 101 East explores the real costs of climbing this deadly peak.
Episode 24
While tensions between China and Japan escalate and nationalist sentiments ignite, 101 East gains exclusive access into Japan's Self Defence Force.
Episode 25
Coffee drinkers love East Timor's green beans but farming remains a life and death struggle in Asia's poorest nation.
Episode 26
Thailand's latest talks with its southern insurgents were meant to signal hope, but met with more killings. What will it take to end the fighting?
Episode 31
Seasonal migration from Tajikistan to Russia is destroying families and leaving thousands to grow up without fathers.
Episode 32
101 East explores the lives of Afghan ruby miners, smugglers and Peshawar gem dealers as Afghanistan re-emerges from the shadow of foreign occupation.
Episode 33
101 East explores Mongolia's ancient wrestling culture and their current dominance in the Japanese Sumo scene.
Episode 34
Indian doctors believe they've identified a strain of Tuberculosis incurable through existing medication, raising alarms of a new global health hazard.
Episode 35
Despite having the passion to succeed, corruption and mismanagement have turned Indonesia into football's failed state.
Episode 36
101 East returns to Myanmar to investigate the depth of religious hatred that is plaguing the country and asks if freedom from hate is still possible.
Episode 37
Pakistan's Shia communities are being targeted like never before in deadly attacks by extremist groups. Can authorities protect them and if so how?
Episode 38
Cast out by their families because of superstition, India's widows face poverty and isolation. 101 East investigates the plight of those left behind.
Episode 39
Kamlaris, bonded child labourers, work in the homes of Nepal's elites. Will the country's rulers, still anchored by old values, set these girls free?
Episode 42
101 East visits Osh to uncover continuing discrimination against the Uzbeks of southern Kyrgyzstan three years after violent inter-ethnic struggle.
Episode 43
Myanmar's timber elephants and their handlers have survived wars and dictatorships. Will they survive democracy?
Episode 45
New Zealand has some of the worst imprisonment rates in the developed world. 101 East examines why Maoris and gangs are filling the country's jails.
Episode 46
101 East explores the impact of a lost generation of leaders in Kandahar, an Afghan city known for its lawlessness.
Episode 47
101 East exposes an infamous wildlife trafficker at the helm of a multi-million dollar illegal business.
Episode 48
Hollywood is changing the script to strike gold in China, soon the world's largest movie market. 101 East explores China's blockbuster growth.
Episode 49
101 East explores the impact of the most deadly storm to ever hit the Philippines.
Episode 50
As air pollution hits toxic levels, China counts the human cost of its rapid economic growth.
Episode 52
Despite government claims of peace, torture and abductions continue to be used to stifle ethnic and political dissent.