With its beaches, duty-free shopping and booming real estate, could the island of Hainan become China’s new Hong Kong?
101 East
About the show
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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We meet South Korea’s youngest classical music prodigies and ask what it takes to succeed on the international stage.
101 East travels to Nepal to meet the Sherpa women defying tradition to conquer the world’s highest mountain.
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Forgotten at Sea
We investigate the plight of seafarers, abandoned at sea during the pandemic, and their quests to get home.
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How India’s front-line heroes are battling the COVID-19 surge amid dire shortages of hospital beds and oxygen.
101 East explores how Myanmar’s military is crushing dissent through violence, covert interrogations and fear.
101 East travels to Afghanistan, where even newborns have become targets of war.
Filipino workers in Geneva, Switzerland are being forced to pay exorbitant prices to live in overcrowded apartments.
We travel to Bali to find out what happens when tourists disappear from one of the world’s top holiday destinations.
Do migrant workers who travel thousands of kilometres to make a living risk exploitation in the forests of Sweden?
101 East meets the gangs of Port Moresby, one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
We go undercover to meet the water thieves of Karachi and reveal how climate change is leaving Pakistan dry.
Featuring rare behind-the-scenes access, 101 East goes inside the secretive world of Japanese sumo.
As stories about abusive teachers hit the headlines in Thailand, we meet the students who say they have had enough.