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101 East
2007 - 2017 9.0 (3 votes) 7 Seasons
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Al Jazeera
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101 East

Overview

Bold, untold stories from across Asia and the Pacific. Al Jazeera's in-depth, weekly current affairs programme from the world's most populated region.

Seasons

Season 5 ()

Season 5 of 101 East premiered on Sept, 2015.

1 episodes

Season 8 (2014)

No overview available.

43 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Japan: The next wave
2014-01-09

We investigate the long-term effects of the 2011 tsunami, including a potential cancer threat for Fukushima's children.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Tin Trouble
2014-01-23

"Indonesia is the world’s biggest tin exporter but for poverty stricken miners, the costs are deadly. "

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Cry of the Tiger
2014-02-06

Neglected and mistreated, endangered animals are dying inside Indonesia's disease-ridden Surabaya Zoo.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Philippines: Stray Bullets
2014-02-13

We venture into the crime-ridden neighbourhoods of the Philippines to examine if a new law can get rid of gun violence.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: The Lost Boys
2014-02-20

We explore the plight of thousands of children working in the dangerous coal mines of India’s Meghalaya state.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Dolphin Hunters
2014-03-06

We join an annual tribal dolphin hunt in the Solomon Islands and ask whether this ancient practice should be stopped.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: The vanishing sea tribe
2014-03-13

Thailand's Moken tribe foresaw and survived the 2004 tsunami, but are the traditions that saved them being abandoned?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Dying for fashion
2014-03-20

Deadly clashes between poor garment workers and police are threatening to cripple Cambodia's largest export industry.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Killer crocs
2014-03-27

As saltwater crocodiles stalk Australia's waterways, we investigate if they should be culled to curb attacks on humans.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Indonesia's rock governor
2014-04-03

We go behind the scenes with the man tipped to become Indonesia's next president – governor of Jakarta, Joko Widodo.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: The ice age
2014-04-10

101 East explores methamphetamine abuse in Australia often resulting in violent assaults and mental health breakdowns.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Modi the Messiah?
2014-04-24

101 East goes on the campaign trail with Narendra Modi, the man tipped to be the next Prime Minister of India.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: A war on witches
2014-05-01

As witch-hunts and sorcery killings spread across Papua New Guinea, 101 East investigates shocking human rights abuses.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: We built this city
2014-05-08

After Singapore's first riot in decades, locals ask hard questions about the migrant worker abuse.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Bhutan's Forgotten People: Part 1
2014-05-22

A two-part series follows ethnic Nepalese after they were expelled by Bhutan and found themselves stateless.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: Bhutan's Forgotten People: Part 2
2014-05-29

"In the second of a two-part special on ‘Bhutan’s Forgotten People’, 101 East follows Sabitra Biswa as she leaves a refugee camp in Nepal for a new life in the United States. Sabitra was one of 100,000 ethnic Nepalese forced out of Bhutan in the early 1990s in what many describe as systematic ethnic cleansing."

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: When the battle comes home
2014-06-05

101 East looks at the rising rates of mental health problems among Australian veterans of the war in Afghanistan.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Humanoids
2014-06-12

The development of robots that could save lives is an unparalleled breakthrough, but what if they also could kill?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Muzzling the messenger
2014-06-19

Hong Kong’s press was once the most free in Asia, but many believe it is under attack from the central government.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Thailand in turmoil
2014-06-26

As Thailand reels from its 12th military coup, what will it take to break the dangerous divide in this polarized nation?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Malaysia's gang menace
2014-07-10

Malaysia’s violent ganglands are luring many ethnic indians struggling to fit into a segregated society.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: The gift of sight
2014-07-17

A Nepalese doctor takes an Indonesian woman under his tutelage and brings the gift of sight to the world's destitute.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Reef madness
2014-07-21

The Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are resource rich and claimed by vying countries.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: The baby makers
2014-07-24

We meet the couples desperate for a child and the women in India who give birth to babies they will never know.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: East Meets Tech
2014-07-31

101 East heads to Silicon Valley to investigate the Asian influence on America's high-tech boom.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Food for thought
2014-08-07

101 East goes undercover to expose the hidden harm in China's food industry.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: Stalking cyber paedophiles
2014-08-14

101 East examines how children in the Philippines are exploited when child sex predators lurk online.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: The cost of beauty
2014-08-21

101 East delves into Korea's plastic surgery craze and uncovers the real price of pursuing physical perfection.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Solo mums
2014-08-28

What drives single mothers in South Korea to abandon their babies?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: Out of steppe
2014-09-04

Mongolia's booming economy is growing millionaires, but what happens to those who miss out or are left behind?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: Laos: The legacy
2014-09-11

A group of women risk life and limb to clear Laos of cluster bombs and make their country safe for future generations.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: Japan's throwaway children
2014-10-02

In a country that frowns upon foster care, 33,000 children from abusive homes are growing up in state institutions.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: Drugged up Pakistan
2014-10-09

With more than six million drug users and rising, can Pakistan win its fight against the billion-dollar narcotics trade?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: Ditching the draft
2014-10-16

We gain exclusive access to Taiwan's special forces and ask if the island can fend off China with a volunteer army.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: Strangers in Paradise: Australia's offshore detainees
2014-10-23

We travel to remote Manus Island in Papua New Guinea to investigate Australia's refugee detention programme.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: Tibet calling
2014-10-29

101 East travels to an isolated outpost of Tibetan culture in Nepal that is at risk of losing its unique way of life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: Philippines: After Haiyan
2014-11-06

We returned to the Philippines in 2014 to see how survivors of Typhoon Haiyan were coping in the hardest-hit areas.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: Battling the dry
2014-11-13

101 East explores the human cost of the severe drought paralysing Australia’s north.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 39: Malaysia's Unwanted
2014-11-20

With refugees at risk of abuse and exploitation in Malaysia, 101 East investigates if those in charge are doing enough.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 40: Myanmar's Jade Curse
2014-11-27

China's jade obsession drives a multi-billion dollar black market that fuels a drug-infested jade mining industry.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 41: Japan's stalking crisis
2014-12-11

Stalkers are terrorising more and more women across the country, with 21,000 cases reported to police in 2013.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 42: Thailand's tainted robes
2014-12-18

As scandals involving misbehaving monks rock the nation, 101 East examines if Thailand can save its moral soul.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 43: Thailand's Blood Timber
2014-12-31

101 East follows the trail of illegal poachers who risk it all for the exotic hardwood, driving a species to extinction.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 9 (2015)

No overview available.

45 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Australia's Jihadis
2015-01-29

101 East explores why so many young Australians are risking their lives on the brutal front lines of Syria and Iraq.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Truth or Lies: Somaly Mam
2015-02-05

101 East talks to Cambodia's fallen anti-sex trafficking icon as she fights to restore her reputation and save her NGO.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Last Reef on Earth
2015-02-12

Can marine scientists in Indonesia save the world's oceans with a 3D map of the most biodiverse region on earth?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Cambodia's News Blackmailers
2015-02-19

Hundreds of Cambodian journalists make a living by uncovering news and then extorting bribes to bury the story.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Laos: Saviours of the Street
2015-02-26

101 East examines what is driving the high number of fatal road accidents in Laos and Southeast Asia.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: MH370: The Unending Search
2015-03-05

One year after Flight MH370 vanished, 101 East investigates one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Denim Blues
2015-03-19

The Chinese city of Xintang, known as the world's jeans capital, is home to an industry tainted by labour rights abuses.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Malaysia's Woman Warrior
2015-03-26

We follow the rise of Malaysia's first professional female mixed martial artist as she faces the fight of her life.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Fake Pills: A Fatal Fraud
2015-04-09

101 East investigates the multi-billion-dollar trade in counterfeit medicines, which is creating a global health crisis.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Sri Lanka: Widows of War
2015-04-23

101 East examines the plight of thousands of widows struggling to survive in post-war Sri Lanka.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Sabah's Invisible Children
2015-04-30

101 East enters the world of Sabah's stateless children, who spend their lives on the run from authorities.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Afghanistan's Billion Dollar Drug War
2015-05-07

Afghan authorities are struggling to control the resurgence in poppy farming that feeds the habits of addicts worldwide.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Malaysia: Crackdown on Freedom
2015-05-14

Meet the Malaysians arrested under a controversial law that critics say is being used to silence government opponents.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Kazakhstan's Hard Sell
2015-05-21

Can Kazakhstan become a world power and tourism hotspot despite its poor human rights record and steep prices?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Nepal's Unsung Hero
2015-05-28

101 East follows one man's mission to restore hope to survivors of Nepal's worst natural disaster in recent history.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: China's Super Mums
2015-06-04

101 East explores the tradition of confinement for new mothers in modern China and the growing industry behind it.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Vietnam's War Babies
2015-06-11

We follow a Vietnam war baby as she searches for her roots and finds instead a new generation of Vietnamese orphans.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Saving Thailand's Animals
2015-06-18

Can Thailand's new animal welfare laws curb cruelty inside lucrative tiger temples, elephant parks and wildlife parks?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: Taiwan's Secret Cancer
2015-06-25

Cancer sufferers are taking on a company they say exposed them to toxic chemicals in a landmark class action lawsuit.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Afghanistan: No Country for Women
2015-07-02

In war-torn Afghanistan it is not the Taliban that poses the greatest threat to women - it is their own families.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Southern Exposure
2015-07-09

101 East visits Antarctica where an extraordinary international community live, work and play together. But can it last?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: Papua New Guinea's Snake Man
2015-07-16

We follow a reptile handler-turned-scientist in his quest to save thousands of people from deadly snakebites.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Slaving Away
2015-07-23

We expose the dirty secrets behind Australia's fresh food industry and the widespread exploitation of foreign workers.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: When I Die: Inside Japan's Death Industry
2015-07-30

101 East explores how Japan's funeral industry is getting creative as the ageing nation runs out of space for the dead.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: Becoming Pacquiao
2015-08-13

Inspired by the rags-to-riches story of Manny Pacquiao, many Filipino fighters see boxing as a ticket out of poverty.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: Saving Mary Jane
2015-08-20

She escaped death by firing squad with minutes to spare; now the fight is on to bring Filipina Mary Jane Veloso home.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: Japan's Womenomics
2015-08-27

The island nation is pinning its hopes on women to save its flagging economy.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: Waiting for Eviction
2015-09-03

101 East meets Western Australia's indigenous communities who are facing eviction from their ancestral lands.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: Murder in Malaysia
2015-09-10

101 East investigates the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu and whether the real culprits remain at large.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: White Gold
2015-09-17

A 101 East investigation into the shadowy trade in illegal ivory and Hong Kong's role as a key conduit.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: South Korea: Kimchi Crazy
2015-09-24

South Korean cuisine has taken the world by storm, but has the love for food transformed into an unhealthy obsession?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: China: Tales of a City
2015-10-01

101 East follows the lives of seven people in Nanjing and asks what they think of the direction their country is taking.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: Bringing Them Home: Parental Abduction in Australia
2015-10-08

101 East explores why over 300 Australian children are abducted by a parent and taken overseas every year.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: Cambodia: Circus of Hope
2015-10-15

Cambodia: Circus of Hope

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: Pakistan: Music Under Siege
2015-10-22

Despite facing death threats and censorship, can Pakistan's musicians mend an already crippled industry?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: PNG's Bundles of Joy
2015-10-29

We follow a medical team on Papua New Guinea's remote islands working to reduce the rate of deaths during childbirth.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: Myanmar: Free and Fair?
2015-11-05

Ahead of Myanmar's historic election, we meet activists refusing to buckle under a campaign of harassment and arrest.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: The Buzz Around Niue
2015-11-12

Can Niue, one of the world's smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 39: An Attack on Bloggers
2015-11-19

As harsh laws and a string of murders target Bangladeshi bloggers, 101 East meets those risking their lives.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 40: China: Faking It
2015-11-25

The insatiable appetite for antiques by China's growing nouveau riche is feeding a counterfeit industry.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 41: Can you spot a fake antique?
2015-11-26

China's forged antiques market is booming as the country's burgeoning mega-rich unknowingly buy them up.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 42: Hidden Harm: Australia's Drinking Mums
2015-12-03

101 East meets the mothers and children living with the tragic consequences of drinking alcohol when pregnant.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 43: China's Home Invasion
2015-12-03

As thousands of Chinese are hunting for their dream homes abroad, we investigate the impact of their shopping spree.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 44: Indonesia: Where There's Smoke
2015-12-10

We track down companies accused of being behind Indonesia's deadly fires that have caused a global environmental crisis.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 45: The Great Divide: Islamophobia in Australia
2015-12-17

Is anti-Islamic sentiment threatening Australia's celebrated multicultural identity?

Runtime: 30 min
Season 10 (2016)

No overview available.

40 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Bounty Hunters
2016-01-06

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Bangladesh
2016-01-14

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Out of Sight: Malaysia's Orang Asli
2016-01-21

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in Australia
2016-01-28

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: South Korea's Hangover
2016-02-04

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Australia: In the Line of Fire
2016-02-18

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Inside Indonesia's Drug War
2016-02-25

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: On Thin Ice: India's National Ice Hockey Team
2016-03-03

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Cambodia: Unlicensed to Heal
2016-03-10

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Orangutan Whisperer
2016-03-24

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Cambodia, My New Home
2016-03-31

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Rodrigo Duterte: Guns, Goons and the Presidency
2016-04-07

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Nepal: After the Earthquake
2016-04-14

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: Hong Kong's Missing Booksellers
2016-04-21

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 15: Hong Kong: Aged and Abandoned
2016-05-05

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 16: India's Love Detectives
2016-05-12

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 17: Shark Alarm: Protecting Australia's Swimmers
2016-05-19

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 18: Good Morning Pakistan: Journalists Under Threat
2016-06-02

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 19: China's Rich Girls
2016-06-09

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 20: Myanmar's Poppylands
2016-06-16

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 21: Afghanistan's Slippery Slopes
2016-06-23

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 22: How Safe are Asia's Airlines?
2016-07-07

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 23: Afghanistan: Medics Under Fire
2016-07-14

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 24: No Safe Haven: Chinese Dissidents Living in Fear
2016-07-21

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 25: How to be a Chinese Tourist
2016-07-28

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 26: The Rise of India's superbugs
2016-08-11

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 27: Finding Love In Japan
2016-08-18

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 28: Inside Fukushima's Time Bomb
2016-08-25

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 29: India's Miracle Babies
2016-09-01

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 30: Asia's Kidney Black Market
2016-09-08

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 31: The End of China Inc?
2016-09-15

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 32: Maid in Singapore
2016-09-29

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 33: Japan: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
2016-10-06

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 34: Hope for Australia's Indigenous
2016-10-20

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 35: India's Slave Brides
2016-11-10

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 36: Rodrigo Duterte: The President's Report Card
2016-11-17

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 37: Malaysia: Babies for Sale
2016-11-24

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 38: China's Left-Behind Generation
2016-12-01

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 39: China's African Gold Rush
2016-12-15

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 40: Fleeing South Korea
2016-12-29

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

Runtime: 30 min

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