Human/Social Interest

  Zoomers. Who are they? What motivates them? How are they different from adolescents in generations past? Through the lives of five 15 to 18-year-olds...

  Karmila, Devi and Thesa are an exception in Indonesia. Their job as female motorcycle stunt riders is to perform in the ‘Devil’s Barrel’, riding...

  You’ve read the news and felt outrage over the devastating losses, caused by the most cold-hearted schemes of swindlers and scam rings across Asia....

  A near-deserted island is transformed into a prison without bars, holding some of society’s most hardened gangsters. During the early 1960s, Singapore undertakes a...

  Alarm bells are ringing over falling birthrates. If there are fewer workers and more elderly, what will happen to economies and our standard of...

  Zohra Orchestra, Afghanistan’s first and only all-female musical ensemble was a story of global success. They were a symbol of freedom in the post...

  In 2019, an obscure team from Karnataka rocketed to India’s first-ever Blind Cricket National finals for Women. Despite their efforts, they were beaten by...

  In June 2020, China imposed a National Security Law on Hong Kong to quell political unrest. In the subsequent 12 months, some 90,000 residents...

  Never Out of Reach follows the daily struggles of four unique schools in some of Asia’s most remote locations. In Season 1, we travel...

  A walkthrough the Makerverse, a world where artists, inventors and hackers come together to make almost anything. From guitars formed from AK-47s to technology...

  As the war in Ukraine upends lives, thousands have stepped into critical roles. A CEO takes on the dangerous mission of driving aid into...

  Five hardened criminals, one unique prison, in a ground-breaking observational documentary. Singapore’s Changi Prison is a concrete purgatory, spartan to the extreme. There are no beds,...

  Imagine texting your crush, and she thinks you’re stupid because you misspelt all the words. Or going to the MRT station, and losing your...

  We film with US army veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq as they unpack the War on Terror. We also investigate why after trillions of...

  Once the undisputed king of global video gaming, the past two decades have seen Japanese dominance of the industry nosedive, and its glory days...

  South Korea’s most infamous murder case involving one of the country's first known serial killers. The notorious killer plagued the rural city of Hwaseong...

  Journalist Joi Lee visits her motherland of South Korea to understand what it takes to keep this country pulsating, the fallout with South Koreans...

  Japan is Asia's first industrialised economy, yet it ranks 121, below Angola on the Gender Gap Index. Journalist Yumi Araki returns to Japan to...

For years, news anchor Cheryl Marella has reported on Indonesia from the studios and seen her birth country go through dramatic change. Now, she heads...

Filipino journalist Atom Araullo has reported from some of the most extreme corners of the Philippines. This time, he heads out to find a nation...

Award-winning journalist and author Anjan Sundaram comes out of war-torn Africa and sets his sights on India. Though born in India, Anjan has not lived...

  This documentary takes a powerful and intimate look at the people who are living at little known, mysterious borderlines between two countries, how they...

  Last year, the search for a vaccine for COVID-19 got underway worldwide, including here in Singapore at the Duke-NUS Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme. The...

  A million wildlife species are facing the threat of extinction. But why does this matter to a tiny city state like Singapore? What do...