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As thousands of young Nepalese men battle through grueling physical tests, 101 East discovers what it takes to become a Gurkha.

101 East examines why more people are withdrawing from society in Japan.

101 East gains exclusive access to secretly filmed videos smuggled out of Myanmar that shows the persecution of the Rohingya continues.

101 East meets the child reporters behind a newspaper that tells the stories of India's two million street kids and the injustices they endure.

101 East goes inside Singapore's schools to find out why the nation's students top the global leader board.

101 East visits a cooking school in Vietnam that offers disadvantaged teenagers a pathway out of poverty.

101 East investigates the unfolding humanitarian crisis in India, where COVID-19 infections are rising and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown.

101 East investigates why the COVID-19 pandemic is exposing migrant workers - the backbone of Malaysia's economy - to deadly risks.

Indonesia's West Papua rainforests are Asia's last Eden. 101 East exposes the foreign corporations and local politicians accused of destroying them.

101 East investigates whether Singapore's hawker food culture can survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

With 1.9 million people in India's Assam state at risk of becoming stateless, 101 East investigates their fight to prove they belong.

101 East meets the first responders saving Australia's wildlife from the country's worst bushfires.

As stories about abusive teachers hit the headlines in Thailand, 101 East meets the school students who say they've had enough.

With its beaches, duty-free shopping and booming real estate, could the tropical island of Hainan become China's new Hong Kong? 101 East investigates.

Following violent attacks on Indian nationals, is the country turning a blind eye to racism?

101 East enters the magical world of the Weizza, supernatural beings from the Buddhist occult in Myanmar.

In the inaugural episode 101 East discusses the corruption scandal surrounding Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian, with Winston Dang from the President's Democratic People's Party (DPP) and Joanna Lei of the main opposition party, the KMT.

101 East canvasses reaction to President Bush' s visit to Asia, with guests Professor Lang Xian-ping from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shanghai and former UN security Council President Professor Kishore Mahbubani.

101 East examines the case of Ching Cheong, the The Straits Times newspaper reporter, jailed on charges of spying for Taiwan, and analyses the clues it provides about press freedom in China today.

Teymoor Nabili reports from the oldest rain forest in the world on the devastating effects of deforestation in South East Asia.

As Borneo's jungle continues to disappear from illegal logging and palm oil plantations, there are fears for the future of the native orangutans.