More than three months after an earthquake killed 70,000 people in Sichuan, central China, not a single orphan has been adopted. The process has been blighted by bureaucracy and by the unwillingness ...

Nine years ago this holiday season, Andrew “Bobo” Speakman visited Northwest Indiana from an orphanage in China. The young boy was sponsored for a U.S. visit by Jill Terborg, a mother of two adopted ...

At lunchtime, a group of children rushes to the canteen of a welfare house, washes their hands, and sits down to eat a spread of hot dishes. The children all live at the Sunshine Home for AIDS orphans ...

Chinese police prevented American author Amy Tan from speaking at a fund-raising dinner, apparently because the event was on behalf of Chinese orphans, organizers said Sunday. Police first asked the ...

TOKYO -- Hundreds of orphans left behind by Japanese troops fleeing China at the end of World War II sued the Japanese government on Friday. A total of 637 plaintiffs in two groups filed a lawsuit ...

CHANGNING, China - The telephones kept ringing with more orders, and although Duan Yuelin kept raising his prices, the demand was inexhaustible. Customers were so eager to buy more that they would ply ...

As the first estimate of orphans -- more than 4,000 -- emerged yesterday from last week's deadly earthquake, thousands of Chinese are rushing to offer their homes. The interest is another sign of ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao invited 15 HIV/AIDS orphans and child victims to tour the ruling Communist Party's headquarters on Friday as a top U.N. official said China needed more ...