101 East looks at the compelling stories and events it covered from across Asia in the year of 2011.

From Nepal, where a lucrative trade in providing orphans for adoption has led to claims of child-trafficking, to the world's most secretive country, North Korea, and its elite filmmaking academy where young actors are hand-picked to serve a massive propaganda machine.

From the Philippines where more and more young women are risking their lives to smuggle drugs out of the country, to China, where a recent study estimates that more than 170 million Chinese suffer from a mental disorder but very few are receiving care.

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