Undercover Asia

Season 6

2019 · 6 episodes · 4h 42m in all · 8.0/10

This flagship investigative series digs deep into the underbelly of Asia to uncover stories about passport forgers, medical refugees, and desperate people caught in the crossfire of politics.

Episodes

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   1. Smuggling for Survival

   28 Jan 2019 · 47 min

   Cancer patients in China desperate for targeted drugs are turning to India. But they face many risks as they navigate the web of shady manufacturers and gray areas in the drug market.

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   2. The Forgers

   4 Feb 2019 · 45 min

   Meet "The Doctor", who has helped drug dealers, criminals and terrorists move freely across borders, often to deadly effect. We get exclusive access to one of the world’s most notorious passport forgers, as he speaks to us from inside the prison walls in Thailand.

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   3. Fish Wars

   11 Feb 2019 · 47 min

   Why is the farming of pangasius in Vietnam so controversial, especially in the West? We investigate the mass production of this fish also known as dory, basa fish, and catfish.

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   4. Maldives - Trouble in Paradise

   18 Feb 2019 · 47 min

   Maldives is known as a tourist paradise, but the locals live a very different life here. What are the social and political forces that are turning their young men to terrorism?

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   5. North Korean Ghost Ships

   25 Feb 2019 · 48 min

   Fishing ships from North Korea, discovered with dead bodies onboard, have been washing up on Japan's shores. We investigate why there has been a spike in the number of these"ghost ships".

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   6. Evaporated People

   4 Mar 2019 · 48 min · 8.0/10

   Every year, nearly 100,000 Japanese vanish without a trace. They are known as johatsu, or “evaporated people”. What drives them to engineer their own disappearances?