Qi-Gong (pronounced chee-goong), has been practiced in China for thousands of years. Qi-gong, literally, breathing exercises, is the name given to a wide variety of methods for enhancing one's Qi (internal energy or life force). At the end of the cultural revolution, Deng...

"Qi tender" Jane Grissmer daily witnesses patients transform their experience in the course of treatment: pain gives way to ease, rage to forgiveness, isolation to connection, stiffness to flexibility, resignation to hope. Here she examines that process of healing and change. In...

Microsoft Corp. and China's No. 2 personal computer maker signed an agreement Wednesday to pre-install Microsoft's Windows operating system in PCs to combat widespread Chinese product piracy.The agreement with Founder Technology Group Corp. shows "the commitment of both companies to protect intellectual property rights," the...

Police in central China have jailed a 50-year-old woman for posing as a teenage rape victim on the Internet, an official and state media said Wednesday.The China Daily newspaper reported on its Web site that the woman, identified only by her surname Chen, pretended to...