Relative press freedom hasn't led to rampant muckraking, but it's not all smiles and "Have a great day!" beyond Olympic Beijing.

Those wanting to enjoy the Olympics as pure sport have to ignore the host country's troubling behavior -- just what it wants you to do.

His Holiness struggles to defuse mounting violence between Tibet and China.

If China had a Democratic primary, which way would the Middle Kingdom go?

The reaction to the fatal attack on American tourists in Beijing is very different from the U.S. response to the 1996 Atlanta bombing.

Our correspondent returns to Beijing for the games -- and finds the same old dreary place.

Well, clean it up. But seriously folks, has there ever been a less titillating bit of unauthorized video?

As Amnesty International slams China on human rights, Western journalists get a taste of censorship -- and Olympic excuse making.

The Olympic torch speaks: A rare phone interview from a secret hideout in Australia. Plus: Flapless batting helmet renaissance.

Locally produced, locally consumed: Apple announces plans for a Beijing store.

With a year to go before the Beijing Olympics, activists say China hasn't kept the promises it made to get them.

A statement of moral admonition from Wu Yi to Henry Paulson

Rachel DeWoskin moved to Beijing to work in a P.R. firm. How did she get a starring role as sex kitten Jiexi in a Chinese soap opera?

Journalist Danny Schechter says the peculiar spiritual movement isn't a cult, but explains why China is cracking down on it so forcefully.

From back rubs to bowling to B-movies, this Chinese spa has it all.

Images and impressions of people-powered transport in 12 Asian cities. Text by Tony Wheeler. Photographs by Richard I' Anson.

Michaela Griffin reports that being an American expatriate in Beijing was great -- until the president decided to visit.

Dan Ouellette reports from the fifth Beijing International Jazz Festival on how jazz is swinging its way into Chinese culture

President Clinton goes to China, a country the U.S. needs more than ever.

Christian McIntosh describes an unforgettable introduction to Beijing -- the night of the living roaches.

Andrew O'Hehir reviews 'Red Corner' directed Jon Avnet and starring Richard Gere and Bai Ling.

In the military, that means rape and pillage at will -- and in your own ranks.

Banging the drum for CIA-crack conspiracy theories, questioning the sex charges brought against black Army officers by white enlisted women and passionately defending affirmative action, confrontational Rep. Maxine Waters has risen to the top level of black political leadership.

Hong Kong's last British governor winds down years of bad fung shui and ponders the future of democracy in the crown colony.