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101 East

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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.

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  1. Play The Bounty Hunters
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    The Bounty Hunters

    2016-01-06

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

  2. Play Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Bangladesh
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    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.

  3. Play Out of Sight: Malaysia's Orang Asli
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    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.

  4. Play Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in Australia
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    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.

  5. Play South Korea's Hangover
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    South Korea's Hangover

    2016-02-04

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

  6. Play Australia: In the Line of Fire
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    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.

  7. Play Inside Indonesia's Drug War
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    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?

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

  9. Play Cambodia: Unlicensed to Heal
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    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.

  10. Play The Orangutan Whisperer
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    The Orangutan Whisperer

    2016-03-24

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

  11. Play Cambodia, My New Home
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    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.

  12. Play Rodrigo Duterte: Guns, Goons and the Presidency
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    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.

  13. Play Nepal: After the Earthquake
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    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.

  14. Play Hong Kong's Missing Booksellers
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    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?

  15. Play Hong Kong: Aged and Abandoned
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    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?

  16. Play India's Love Detectives
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    India's Love Detectives

    2016-05-12

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

  17. Play Shark Alarm: Protecting Australia's Swimmers
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    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.

  18. Play Good Morning Pakistan: Journalists Under Threat
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    Good Morning Pakistan: Journalists Under Threat

    2016-06-02

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

  19. Play China's Rich Girls
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    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.

  20. Play Myanmar's Poppylands
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    Myanmar's Poppylands

    2016-06-16

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

  21. Play Afghanistan's Slippery Slopes
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    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?

  22. Play How Safe are Asia's Airlines?
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    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.

  23. Play Afghanistan: Medics Under Fire
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    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.

  24. Play No Safe Haven: Chinese Dissidents Living in Fear
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    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.

  25. Play How to be a Chinese Tourist
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    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

  26. Play The Rise of India's superbugs
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    The Rise of India's superbugs

    2016-08-11

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

  27. Play Finding Love In Japan
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    Finding Love In Japan

    2016-08-18

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

  28. Play Inside Fukushima's Time Bomb
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    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.

  29. Play India's Miracle Babies
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    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?

  30. Play Asia's Kidney Black Market
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    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'.

  31. Play The End of China Inc?
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    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.

  32. Play Maid in Singapore
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    Maid in Singapore

    2016-09-29

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

  33. Play Japan: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
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    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.

  34. Play Hope for Australia's Indigenous
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    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.

  35. Play India's Slave Brides
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    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.

  36. Play Rodrigo Duterte: The President's Report Card
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    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?

  37. Play Malaysia: Babies for Sale
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    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.

  38. Play China's Left-Behind Generation
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    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.

  39. Play China's African Gold Rush
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    China's African Gold Rush

    2016-12-15

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

  40. Play Fleeing South Korea
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    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.

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