CROMWELL -- As you walk into Joanne and Bob Vess's home, Chinese music is playing softly and Shu Shu, the youngest of the Vess's adopted daughters, is singing sweetly in Chinese along with the music.

The Jacksons adopted two girls from China and are finding support through wheelchair basketball. Daniel Jackson, of Alabama, said his daughter Jian lights up when she's playing, thanks in part to an ...

In the pre-dawn darkness of Yunnan province’s high mountains, a daily ritual unfolds. Ms. Zhang Guimei, a 68-year-old principal, walks the halls of China’s first free high school for girls, waking her ...