Teymoor Nabili looks at how the Thai government is butting heads with the multinational pharmaceutical giants.

Patients or patents in Thailand

Season 5 of 101 East premiered on Sept, 2015.

Episode 40

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

Japan: The next wave

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

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Tin Trouble

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

Cry of the Tiger

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

Philippines: Stray Bullets

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

The Lost Boys

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

The Dolphin Hunters

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

The vanishing sea tribe

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

Dying for fashion

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

Killer crocs

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

Indonesia's rock governor

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

The ice age

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

Modi the Messiah?

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

A war on witches

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

We built this city

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

Bhutan's Forgotten People: Part 1

"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."

Bhutan's Forgotten People: Part 2

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

When the battle comes home

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

Humanoids

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

Muzzling the messenger

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

Thailand in turmoil

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

Malaysia's gang menace

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

The gift of sight

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

Reef madness

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

The baby makers

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

East Meets Tech

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

Food for thought

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

Stalking cyber paedophiles

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

The cost of beauty

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

Solo mums

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

Out of steppe

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

Laos: The legacy

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

Japan's throwaway children

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

Drugged up Pakistan

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

Ditching the draft

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

Strangers in Paradise: Australia's offshore detainees

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

Tibet calling

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

Philippines: After Haiyan

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

Battling the dry

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

Malaysia's Unwanted

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

Myanmar's Jade Curse

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

Japan's stalking crisis

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

Thailand's tainted robes

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

Thailand's Blood Timber

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

Australia's Jihadis

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

Truth or Lies: Somaly Mam

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

The Last Reef on Earth

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

Cambodia's News Blackmailers

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

Laos: Saviours of the Street

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

MH370: The Unending Search

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

Denim Blues

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

Malaysia's Woman Warrior

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

Fake Pills: A Fatal Fraud

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

Sri Lanka: Widows of War

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

Sabah's Invisible Children

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

Afghanistan's Billion Dollar Drug War

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

Malaysia: Crackdown on Freedom

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

Kazakhstan's Hard Sell

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

Nepal's Unsung Hero

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

China's Super Mums

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

Vietnam's War Babies

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

Saving Thailand's Animals

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

Taiwan's Secret Cancer

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

Afghanistan: No Country for Women

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

Southern Exposure

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

Papua New Guinea's Snake Man

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

Slaving Away

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

When I Die: Inside Japan's Death Industry

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

Becoming Pacquiao

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

Saving Mary Jane

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

Japan's Womenomics

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

Waiting for Eviction

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

Murder in Malaysia

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

White Gold

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

South Korea: Kimchi Crazy

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

China: Tales of a City

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

Bringing Them Home: Parental Abduction in Australia

Cambodia: Circus of Hope

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

Pakistan: Music Under Siege

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

PNG's Bundles of Joy

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

Myanmar: Free and Fair?

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

The Buzz Around Niue

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

An Attack on Bloggers

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

China: Faking It

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

Can you spot a fake antique?

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

Hidden Harm: Australia's Drinking Mums

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

China's Home Invasion

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

Indonesia: Where There's Smoke

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

The Great Divide: Islamophobia in Australia

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

The Bounty Hunters

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

Too Young to Wed: Child Marriage in Bangladesh

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

Out of Sight: Malaysia's Orang Asli

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

Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in Australia

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

South Korea's Hangover

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

Australia: In the Line of Fire

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

Inside Indonesia's Drug War

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

On Thin Ice: India's National Ice Hockey Team

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

Cambodia: Unlicensed to Heal

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

The Orangutan Whisperer

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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Season 1

Patients or patents in Thailand

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/23/2007