Ricki Mudd was born in 1993 in China during the one-child policy era. She remembers her early childhood only in fragments, ...

The policy change — lamented by some, cheered by others — left about 300 U.S. families with a pending adoption in limbo. Nearly all of those children reportedly have a serious illness or disability, ...

But everything changed suddenly one day, when he was told by the local police that he was actually a Japanese orphan adopted by his Chinese foster parents. He learned that his own father ...

(Just over half of those went to America.) For much of that time, Chinese orphanages were full as a result of the state’s population-control measures. Under the one-child policy, in place from ...

China has forcibly separated Uighur families by taking young children into state orphanages, according to human rights group Amnesty International. In a new report, Amnesty has called on China to ...

China began allowing international adoptions ... had also led to more children with special needs ending up in orphanages. Dani Nelson, who was adopted to the US in 2017, said she was given ...

As a result, the majority of children in Chinese orphanages are girls. Since the turn of the century, most children adopted from China have been girls, but last year, more boys than girls were adopted ...

As we near the end of our “emerging markets” focus month, Chia Wen Lee and Betty Su share their thoughts on the status of orphan drugs in China, one of the largest emerging markets in the world.