Undercover Asia

Richard Huckle is one of the world's most heinous child sexual predators. He is guilty of almost 100 counts of child sexual abuses in Malaysia. His exploits were anonymously put onto the dark web for pedophiles from all over the world. This online presence would lead to his arrest.

40,000 people in Japan die alone in their homes every year. We will follow Hirotsugu Masuda the CEO of a specialist 'Lonely Death' cleaning company, as he and his team go on the job.

Despite his own ordeal at the hands of Abu Sayyaf, journalist Baker Atyani returns to the Philippines to find out why they are prospering. As he tries to search for a negotiator for the latest victims, a breakthrough comes when he meets intelligence officers searching for Baker's own abductors.

India is facing a massive crisis in its healthcare sector. There is approximately 1 registered doctor for every 1700 patients. This severe shortage of qualified doctors, an ineffective public healthcare system, lack of legal enforcement and corruption has lead to the rampant growth of quacks in the country.

Nearly 90% of the estimated 143 million children in orphanages worldwide are not orphans at all. They are systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families. The adoption industry is a huge market driven by money where orphans are ‘manufactured’.

Undercover Asia goes inside President Duterte's war on drugs and uncovers stories of Filipinos who are brutally affected by a campaign that has claimed more than 7000 lives by Jan 2017. Will a merciless war on drug addicts and dealers solve the problems of the Philippines?

In China, divorce rates have almost doubled in the last decade, with many couples splitting up due to a third party. With more married men taking up lovers and mistresses, China is seeing the rise of an unexpected industry – professional Mistress Busters who are hired by wives to save their marriage.

Myanmar’s vast and illicit drugs trade is devastating local communities in the country’s war-torn border regions. ‘Drug Vigilantes’ follows a fast growing movement of militant Christian vigilantes trying to fight back against this deadly trade, into a chaotic world of addiction, fear and violence.

In Pakistan, over 1000 women are killed every year in the name of honour – and one case made the world take notice. Social media star, Qandeel Baloch’s bold and sexy videos challenged convention and shocked a nation. But in conservative Pakistan, a woman’s actions can have fatal consequences.