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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 Japan: The next wave
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    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.

  2. Play Tin Trouble
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    Tin Trouble

    2014-01-23

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

  3. Play Cry of the Tiger
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    Cry of the Tiger

    2014-02-06

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

  4. Play Philippines: Stray Bullets
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    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.

  5. Play The Lost Boys
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    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.

  6. Play The Dolphin Hunters
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    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.

  7. Play The vanishing sea tribe
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    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?

  8. Play Dying for fashion
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    Dying for fashion

    2014-03-20

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

  9. Play Killer crocs
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    Killer crocs

    2014-03-27

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

  10. Play Indonesia's rock governor
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    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.

  11. Play The ice age
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    The ice age

    2014-04-10

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

  12. Play Modi the Messiah?
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    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.

  13. Play A war on witches
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    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.

  14. Play We built this city
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    We built this city

    2014-05-08

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

  15. Play Bhutan's Forgotten People: Part 1
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    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.

  16. Play Bhutan's Forgotten People: Part 2
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    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."

  17. Play When the battle comes home
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    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.

  18. Play Humanoids
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    Humanoids

    2014-06-12

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

  19. Play Muzzling the messenger
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    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.

  20. Play Thailand in turmoil
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    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?

  21. Play Malaysia's gang menace
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    Malaysia's gang menace

    2014-07-10

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

  22. Play The gift of sight
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    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.

  23. Play Reef madness
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    Reef madness

    2014-07-21

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

  24. Play The baby makers
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    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.

  25. Play East Meets Tech
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    East Meets Tech

    2014-07-31

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

  26. Play Food for thought
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    Food for thought

    2014-08-07

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

  27. Play Stalking cyber paedophiles
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    Stalking cyber paedophiles

    2014-08-14

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

  28. Play The cost of beauty
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    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.

  29. Play Solo mums
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    Solo mums

    2014-08-28

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

  30. Play Out of steppe
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    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?

  31. Play Laos: The legacy
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    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.

  32. Play Japan's throwaway children
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    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.

  33. Play Drugged up Pakistan
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    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?

  34. Play Ditching the draft
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    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.

  35. Play Strangers in Paradise: Australia's offshore detainees
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    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.

  36. Play Tibet calling
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    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.

  37. Play Philippines: After Haiyan
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    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.

  38. Play Battling the dry
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    Battling the dry

    2014-11-13

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

  39. Play Malaysia's Unwanted
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    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.

  40. Play Myanmar's Jade Curse
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    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.

  41. Play Japan's stalking crisis
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    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.

  42. Play Thailand's tainted robes
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    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.

  43. Play Thailand's Blood Timber
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    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.

  44. Play Special Episode 1
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    Special Episode 1

    2014-01-08

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