American millennials aren’t the only ones trying to escape the rat race. In China, young people are heading to “youth retirement villages,” whether for a weekend, a few weeks or much longer.

It's probably fair to say not many people have heard of the Second Thomas Shoal, which is known as Ayungin in the Philippines and Ren'ai Jiao in China. This teardrop-shaped reef is part of the ...

In 1894, physician Mary Miles in Canton, China, had reported the widespread death of rats in plague epidemics. But people assumed the rats caught the disease from humans. In 1897, Japanese ...