A gay Chinese man said Thursday he is suing a "gay conversion" therapy clinic, the first lawsuit of its kind in the country, after suffering physical and mental harm when the clinic used electroshock ...

Last October, a man surnamed Yu planned to get a divorce from his wife of 10 years. Given China’s burgeoning divorce rate, the split wasn’t unusual. But on the the day the 37-year-old planned to sign ...

In 2009, China banned the use of electroconvulsive therapy as a treatment for Internet addiction. The country’s health ministry concluded that the practice had “no foundation in clinical research” and ...

A gay Chinese man sued search engine Baidu in Bejing for allowing an undisclosed ad for an allegedly unlicensed psychological counseling center to appear at the top of search results. He underwent ...

BEIJING — A gay Chinese man said Thursday he was suing a psychological clinic for carrying out electric shocks intended to turn him straight, as well as the search engine giant Baidu for advertising ...

BEIJING — A Chinese court has ordered a psychiatric hospital to compensate and apologise to a gay man who was forced to undergo conversion therapy — a ruling hailed by LGBT rights groups. The ...