Mainstream American media outlets typically portray female massage parlor workers — many of them immigrants from Korea, Vietnam, and in recent years, China — as victims of transnational crime ...

BEIJING — For farm wife Zhang Meiqing, the advice from her older brother seemed sage: Toiling in the rice paddies was fool’s work, he said. Come to the city for a career of washing and rubbing ...

Massage in China is plentiful and fairly cheap -- anywhere from $10 to $20 for a 60- to 90-minute, Western-style oil massage. It costs less for a traditional Chinese massage, where you keep all your ...

Detox water: Many of us associate the term with some kind of fancy lemon-mint water in the aisles of Whole Foods. At Tustin Foot Massage, a Chinese Reflexology joint, detox water is the grotesquely ...

There are tons of fancy-pants spas in Orange County—but now probably isn’t the greatest time to indulge in such a thing. I never really worked well with fancy-pants spas, anyway. Snooty receptionists, ...

'YOU have hormonal feet," says reflexologist Rosanna Bickerton. As a menopausal woman who has forgotten how it feels to be cold, I know that I am in thrall to my endocrine system. But hormonal feet?

There are more nerve endings in the feet and hands than almost any other body part, so foot massages feel especially gratifying. They also offer a range of health benefits, such as aiding circulation ...

A massage parlour in China is offering a shockingly cheap service, but to qualify for it, clients must be women and own either the latest iPhone or a luxury car to prove they are “exceptionally ...