investigative report

Deep in a remote Cambodian rainforest, criminals are setting up illegal factories to produce safrole oil, the raw ingredient for ecstasy. Vanguard’s Adam Yamaguchi joins armed forest rangers on a search and destroy mission. (22 min)

The indigenous communities of Ecuador are standing up and demanding Chevron-Texaco to clean up its toxic wastewater legacy in the worse environmental disaster since Chernobyl. (28 min)

Vanguard News takes a behind the scenes look at the adult entertainment industry, examining its history and impact on the ever-changing face of new media. (22:13)

To bring this story, FRANCE 24’s reporters defied a ban on entering the island of Jolo, south Philippines, where Islamist group Abu Sayyaf has been multiplying abductions of foreigners. (17:26 min)

Fault Lines travels to Rio to look at the crackdown in Rio’s Favelas, and what it means for the people of the city. (19 min)

Bali is known as a tropical paradise but there is a hidden side to the Indonesian island - Bali’s mentally ill. Most of them have never received proper treatment. Instead, their families often keep them chained up or in makeshift cages. (20 min, 2 segments)

In 2002 East Timor became the first new nation of the 21st century, gaining independence from Indonesia after a 24 year occupation that cost 200,000 lives. Now, violence is brewing internally. (13:20 min)

By next year, more than half the world’s population will for the first time in history be living in cities. Current Vanguard’s Mariana van Zeller tours Lagos, Nigeria, the world’s fastest-growing “Megacity.” (14:46 min)