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2013
2013x12
Japan: Battling the Yakuza
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The Yakuza in Japan has links that extend as far back as 400 years to Edo era. But their days of protecting the weak against the strong are long gone. Today, the Yakuza is a mighty and .. show full overview
2013x1
The Big Dig
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Mongolia is opening one of the world's biggest copper mines, the Oyu Tolgoi. But the deal with Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is highly controversial. 101 East examines if mining will change Mongolia for the better, or worse.
2013x2
Risky Business
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Some of the world's largest energy giants are moving into eastern Australia and investing billions of dollars to exploit coal seam gas reserves so vast they could rewrite the world's .. show full overview
2013x3
Phoning from the Philippines
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The Philippines is emerging as a great outsourcing nation for cost efficiency, but are there limits to its success?
2013x4
A Curse in the Family - Behind India's Witch Hunts
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In remote parts of India, illness, poor harvest and bad luck can sometimes mean only one thing - a curse in the family. 101 East unveils a volatile world of land conflicts and abuse of .. show full overview
2013x5
Down and Under
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Australia is one of the richest nations in the world. Yet there is a growing poverty gap which can be seen in suburbs like Claymore. The New South Wales government built this public .. show full overview
2013x6
Stemming the tide
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Jakarta, Indonesia, is one of Asia's most flood-prone cities. Every year hundreds of thousands of citizens living in the capital of Southeast Asia's largest economy brace for the loss of .. show full overview
2013x7
Educating Indonesia
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Participants in Indonesia Mengajar, a programme funded by private corporations and run by prominent university educator Anies Baswedan, are given army survival training before being .. show full overview
2013x8
The Fight for Rapa Nui
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Can the Easter Island's indigenous Rapa Nui win the battle for independence from Chile to protect their land and culture?
2013x9
It's a Man's World
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101 East travels to Cambodia, a country representing some of the highest levels of rape in the region to speak with men themselves about why they commit these crimes and to find out if the perpetrators can trigger new ideas for prevention.
2013x10
Pakistan: Murder in God's Name
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Blasphemy charges have fatal consequences in Pakistan but a determined few are risking their lives to protect the accused and press for reform.
2013x11
Diminishing Ray of Hope
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We explore how the demand for manta gill plates is threatening the existence of one of the most graceful marine species.
2013x11
The Unholy Conspiracy - Australia's Clerical Sex
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In late 2012, Australia was rocked by fresh allegations of Catholic clergy child sex abuse by whistleblower, New South Wales Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox.
2013x13
Malaysia election
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Facing a raft of domestic issues, can Malaysia’s government weather a growing opposition onslaught to win the elections?
2013x14
The world’s richest city
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With the rising cost of living, locals are starting to struggle to keep up, so is the party set to end?
2013x15
Reef Race
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Environmentalists race to save Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as port expansions threaten its World Heritage status.
2013x16
License to kill
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Is Australia’s moral compass being called into question as opinions change about euthanasia?
2013x17
Restoring Rangoon
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101 East takes a rare peek inside Yangon’s most famous building, as Myanmar’s colonial architecture is under threat.
2013x18
Everest 60th Anniversary
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Marking the first ascent of Everest, we celebrate the victories and explore the real costs of climbing this deadly peak.
2013x19
The Pacifist War
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Is war looming as Japan strengthens its military power and tensions escalate over disputed East China Sea islands?
2013x20
Japan’s elephant in the room
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Is the Japan Self-Defense Force preparing to step into the limelight and assume a more prominent military role?
2013x21
Where the wild coffee grows
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Coffee drinkers love East Timor’s green beans but farming remains a life and death struggle in Asia’s poorest nation.
2013x22
Into the south
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What will it take to end fighting between the government and insurgents in Thailand’s deep south?
2013x23
Tajikistan’s missing men
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Seasonal migration from Tajikistan to Russia is destroying families and leaving thousands to grow up without fathers.
2013x24
Crystal Dreams
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As foreign troops withdraw and the Taliban return, we explore the lives of Afghanistan’s ruby miners.
2013x25
Sumo on the Steppes
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Wrestling is a national sport in Mongolia, but now fighters are taking their skills abroad and dominating Japanese sumo.
2013x26
Contagion
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Indian doctors believe they have identified a mutant strain of incurable TB, raising alarms of a new health hazard.
2013x27
State of the Game
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Despite having the passion to succeed, corruption and mismanagement have turned Indonesia into football’s failed state.
2013x28
Freedom from Hate
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101 East returns to Myanmar to investigate the religious hatred plaguing the country.
2013x29
India: A Widow’s Penance
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We explore the daily battles of India’s widows as they face restrictions on inheritance, remarriage and social welfare.
2013x30
Nepal’s Slave Girls
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Can the young girls forced to work in middle class homes across the country break the bonds of slavery?
2013x31
Unhealed Wounds of Osh
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A look at continuing discrimination and failure of justice three years after deadly ethnic clashes in south Kyrgyzstan.
2013x32
Burma’s Last Timber Elephants
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Myanmar’s timber elephants and their handlers have survived wars and dictatorships, but will they survive democracy?
2013x33
Sectarian divide
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How can Pakistan’s authorities protect its minority Shia community?
2013x34
Locked Up Warriors
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Why does New Zealand have one of the highest rates of incarceration in the developed world?
2013x35
Assassination Capital
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101 East explores the impact of a lost generation of leaders in Kandahar, an Afghan city known for its lawlessness.
2013x36
Inside Chollywood
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101 East asks if Chinese cinema is about to enter a golden age that will make it too lucrative for Hollywood to ignore.
2013x37
The Killer Storm
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101 East travels to Tanauan, a town in the Philippines hit by Typhoon Haiyan, whose plight has gone largely unreported.
2013x38
China Airpocalypse
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As air pollution hits toxic levels, China counts the human cost of its rapid economic growth.
2013x39
Scars of Sri Lanka
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Despite government claims of peace, torture and abductions continue to be used to stifle ethnic and political dissent.
2013x40
The other China boom
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China’s youth are driving a booming trade in recreational drugs, turning neighbouring Myanmar into a meth lab.