101 East — 2016

Jan 201630m

As weak law enforcement allows the Philippines' most wanted fugitives to evade capture, are bounty hunters the answer?

Jan 201630m

101 East travels to Bangladesh to find out why young girls are often forced to marry men twice their age.

Jan 201630m

101 East investigates what led to the deaths of five indigenous children who went missing in the jungles of Malaysia.

Jan 201630m

101 East examines why domestic violence touches so many Australian women and asks what is being done to turn the tide.

Feb 201630m

South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians, but is this national obsession with alcohol reversible?

Feb 201630m

Australians living in the world's most fire-prone region grapple daily with a life-or-death choice: fight or flight.

Feb 201630m

Indonesia's drug laws are some of the strictest in the world, but are long jail terms and capital punishment working?

Mar 201630m

India's national ice hockey team is fighting to win hearts and matches in their quest for international sporting glory.

Mar 201630m

101 East investigates Cambodia's healthcare system and asks if unlicensed village medics are the best hope for the sick.

Mar 201630m

Can orangutan expert Leif Cocks and special jungle schools in Sumatra help save the endangered species from extinction?

Mar 201630m

We follow refugees who hoped to live in Australia as they are resettled in Cambodia in a controversial transfer deal.

Apr 201630m

Using gun power, he cleaned up his violent city. Now he wants the Filipino presidency. We join his wild ride to the top.

Apr 201630m

We return to Nepal to find out how people have endured the aftermath of one of the nation's deadliest natural disasters.

Apr 201630m

Five Hong Kong booksellers vanish, only to surface in China. How and why did they get there?

May 201630m

Hong Kong is one of the world's richest cities, so why are thousands of elderly residents collecting rubbish to survive?

May 201630m

Hiring private detectives to investigate lovers is big business in India as modern technology challenges tradition.

May 201630m

101 East dives headfirst into the debate over whether Australia is doing enough to protect swimmers from shark attacks.

Jun 201630m

In Pakistan's tribal areas, journalists risk it all to deliver the news.

Jun 201630m

We enter the inner circle of China's new generation of elites to get an insight into a world where money is no object.

Jun 201630m

Growing opium provides vital income for thousands of families in Myanmar but the drug is devastating entire communities.

Jun 201630m

A ski industry has sprung up in the remote alps of Afghanistan. But will this enterprise survive a resurgent Taliban?

Jul 201630m

101 East investigates if Asia's budget airlines are sacrificing safety as competition for passengers heats up.

Jul 201630m

We investigate the dangers facing medics on the frontline in the wake of a fatal attack on a hospital in Afghanistan.

Jul 201630m

Thailand has long been a sanctuary for Chinese dissidents, but it no longer offers safety for those seeking refuge.

Jul 201630m

We go on tour in Paris with the Chinese tour groups who have joined the notorious club of the world's worst tourists

Aug 201630m

Tens of thousands of newborns are dying every year in India from antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

Aug 201630m

Romance is proving problematic for Japanese youth. Can state-sanctioned matchmaking provide the perfect love potion?

Aug 201630m

Five years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster many residents are still living in a radioactive nightmare.

Sept 201630m

India's elderly new mothers: Are doctors playing God, or does every woman have the right to bear a child?

Sept 201630m

We explore Asia's organ black market, from the villages of Nepal to the Indian city known as the 'Great Kidney Bazaar'.

Sept 201630m

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.

Sept 201630m

Agents in Myanmar are recruiting girls as young as 15 to work as domestic helpers in Singapore.

Oct 201630m

A look at Japan's justice system as forced confessions and wrong convictions threaten to taint law enforcement agencies.

Oct 201630m

We investigate how the Australian town of Bourke is trying to save their indigenous youth from a life of crime.

Nov 201630m

101 East investigates how every year, tens of thousands of girls and women in India are trafficked into slave marriages.

Nov 201630m

The Philippine president has been accused of ordering extrajudicial killings, but who is the man behind the headlines?

Nov 201630m

101 East investigates the sinister world of baby selling in Malaysia, where infants are sold to the highest bidder.

Dec 201630m

Millions of China's children are growing up without their parents. We look at the struggles of a generation left behind.

Dec 201630m

101 East travels into Ghana's tropical rainforest where 30,000 Chinese miners hunt for gold.

Dec 201630m

Young skilled South Koreans throw away their careers for manual jobs overseas to flee the pressures of life at home.