2016

1. The Bounty Hunters

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

2016-01-06 • 30 min

2. Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Bangladesh

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

2016-01-14 • 30 min

3. Out of Sight: Malaysia's Orang Asli

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

2016-01-21 • 30 min

4. Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in Australia

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

2016-01-28 • 30 min

5. South Korea's Hangover

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

2016-02-04 • 30 min

6. Australia: In the Line of Fire

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

2016-02-18 • 30 min

7. Inside Indonesia's Drug War

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

2016-02-25 • 30 min

8. On Thin Ice: India's National Ice Hockey Team

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

2016-03-03 • 30 min

9. Cambodia: Unlicensed to Heal

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

2016-03-10 • 30 min

10. The Orangutan Whisperer

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

2016-03-24 • 30 min

11. Cambodia, My New Home

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

2016-03-31 • 30 min

12. Rodrigo Duterte: Guns, Goons and the Presidency

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

2016-04-07 • 30 min

13. Nepal: After the Earthquake

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

2016-04-14 • 30 min

14. Hong Kong's Missing Booksellers

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

2016-04-21 • 30 min

15. Hong Kong: Aged and Abandoned

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

2016-05-05 • 30 min

16. India's Love Detectives

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

2016-05-12 • 30 min

17. Shark Alarm: Protecting Australia's Swimmers

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

2016-05-19 • 30 min

18. Good Morning Pakistan: Journalists Under Threat

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

2016-06-02 • 30 min

19. China's Rich Girls

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

2016-06-09 • 30 min

20. Myanmar's Poppylands

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

2016-06-16 • 30 min

21. Afghanistan's Slippery Slopes

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

2016-06-23 • 30 min

22. How Safe are Asia's Airlines?

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

2016-07-07 • 30 min

23. Afghanistan: Medics Under Fire

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

2016-07-14 • 30 min

24. No Safe Haven: Chinese Dissidents Living in Fear

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

2016-07-21 • 30 min

25. How to be a Chinese Tourist

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

2016-07-28 • 30 min

26. The Rise of India's superbugs

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

2016-08-11 • 30 min

27. Finding Love In Japan

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

2016-08-18 • 30 min

28. Inside Fukushima's Time Bomb

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

2016-08-25 • 30 min

29. India's Miracle Babies

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

2016-09-01 • 30 min

30. Asia's Kidney Black Market

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

2016-09-08 • 30 min

31. The End of China Inc?

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.

2016-09-15 • 30 min

32. Maid in Singapore

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

2016-09-29 • 30 min

33. Japan: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

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

2016-10-06 • 30 min

34. Hope for Australia's Indigenous

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

2016-10-20 • 30 min

35. India's Slave Brides

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

2016-11-10 • 30 min

36. Rodrigo Duterte: The President's Report Card

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

2016-11-17 • 30 min

37. Malaysia: Babies for Sale

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

2016-11-24 • 30 min

38. China's Left-Behind Generation

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

2016-12-01 • 30 min

39. China's African Gold Rush

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

2016-12-15 • 30 min

40. Fleeing South Korea

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

2016-12-29 • 30 min