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While others have spent the pandemic masked up… porn star Stoya has been figuring out new ways to (safely) strip down. Isobel navigates Stoya’s journey from main stream porn darling to empowered sex worker and entrepreneur.

Influencers are the new face of Chinese propaganda. Hidden amongst the vlogs about puppies and makeup, they clandestinely allow Beijing to whitewash its crimes.

In 1949, the government of the Republic of China was defeated in the Chinese Civil War. The Nationalist Government fled the People’s Liberation Army to Taiwan, along with two million troops and civilians. Gao Binghan escaped alone at the age of 13.

Host, Jamie Clifton, looks at some of the chaos caused by recreational drug prohibition.

Photographer Gabriele Micalizzi was given rare access to Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.

Drug cartels are more innovative than most legitimate companies. From narco-submarines to sex toys, we look at the most inventive ways cartels have smuggled drugs.

The Colombian cocaine trade has transformed since the days of Pablo Escobar. This is the story of the rise of the new generation of Colombian drug lords.

In 2007, police seized $207 million from the Chinese-Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon. Could he be the weirdest trafficker in the entire history of the War on Drugs?

From poaching endangered shellfish to smoking quaaludes, this is the wild origin story of how meth took over South Africa.

Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan and CEO of Renault, was accused of under-reporting $80 million of his own salary.

Sri Lanka is bankrupt and protestors blame the current economic crisis on just one family.

Mixed-race Eurasian face filters and models are prolific on Chinese social media, but the same preference isn’t given to mixed-race Black and Chinese people.