I find it disturbing that anyone, least of all an 18 year-old, would be subjected to forced gender testing in order to appease their competitors.
Julie Farby | Posted 08.29.2009 | World
To show the world we're not going to risk relations with our favorite creditor on account of a couple of crushed Uighurs, Obama dropped the whole human rights spiel in favor of sports!
Houston Chronicle | Posted 07.31.2009 | Home
Casting a degree of doubt on Yao Ming's immediate and long-term NBA future, Rockets team physician Tom Clanton on Monday described the extent of the c...
Chi Tung | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics
Winning more golds than anyone else is exactly the kind of paradoxical achievement that enables New China to keep marching to the beat of its own hollow drum
Chi Tung | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media
American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.
Michael Shaw | Posted 09.08.2008 | Media
This incredible shot illustrates how the Chinese government has been using money and pressure to buy the silence of parents who suffered the loss of their children in the earthquake.
Meghan Peters | Posted 09.07.2008 | Entertainment
Naturally I assumed China would be rooting for him during the Games. But I've met several Chinese people here who are backing the U.S. basketball team hands down.
LiLi Tan | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics
It appears that the jubilant cheering surrounding Yao Ming and China's first astronaut Yang Liwei -- though perhaps sincere -- was staged. "They're actors," the son of a Chinese torchbearer told me.
Grist | Posted 09.06.2008 | Green
In this year's Olympics, fifteen eco-activist athletes will champion for their homelands and eco-friendly causes. As UN "Champions of the Environment...
AP | Stephen Wade | Posted 08.11.2008 | Home
The Athletes' Village for the Beijing Olympics held its official opening ceremony Sunday, an all-Chinese curtain raiser with basketball stars Yao Ming...
Hongmei Li | Posted 08.02.2008 | Entertainment
Only the lucky few Chinese can get tickets to watch Olympics games on site. The majority will have to stay at home to watch TV like people in other parts of the world.
China Daily | Chen Xiangfeng | Posted 07.05.2008 | Entertainment
Yao Ming is as excited as anyone about the upcoming Olympics on home soil. But the basketball superstar is worried that, with only 42 days left until ...
Jane Devin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment