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Thailand wants to sign mini-free trade agreements (mini-FTAs) with the Chinese city of Shenzhen and the province of Yunnan in March and April, respectively, after the mini-FTA with Hainan resulted in a significant growth of Thai exports.

Bangkok Post

Boao Forum to Make Full Return as In-Person Event

Delegates from governments, businesses and academia will gather in the town of Boao on South China’s island province of Hainan starting March 28 to discuss deepening international cooperation in the post-Covid era

Caixin Global

China's tourism sector hails sudden policy shift on zero-Covid, but lockdown scepticism remains

The night China announced it would ease some of its most controversial coronavirus controls, Shanghai resident Yu Yuan immediately booked a high-speed train ticket to Beijing for a New Year's trip.

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Chinese province plans ban on sale of gasoline cars

Hainan island in the South China Sea says it will become China’s first region to ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars to curb climate-changing carbon emissions

The Independent UK

Direct flights to Beijing resume from Manchester Airport in huge economic boost

Hainan Airlines flights will return to the skies for the first time since the pandemic

Manchester Evening News

Tourists in Chinese beachside resort city protest Covid lockdown

Tourists in the Chinese seaside resort of Sanya on Hainan Island are protesting after being stranded for over a week due to Covid-19 lockdowns.

Bangkok Post

Parts of China's Hainan extend COVID lockdown, Lhasa in Tibet tightens curbs

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‘China’s Hawaii’ promised escape. Tourists got lockdowns instead

Some 178,000 tourists are reportedly stranded in Hainan as the resort island battles its worst COVID outbreak yet.

Al Jazeera

Tropical storm Mulan churns towards COVID-stricken Hainan Island

Strong winds from Tropical Storm Mulan are expected to whip across the South China Sea towards Hainan Island on Wednesday, raising the possibility of disruption to mass testing on the holiday island that is grappling with a big COVID-19 outbreak.

Reuters

Escaping Shanghai's COVID lockdown only to get trapped in Hainan

Brian Hall fled Shanghai in June to avoid another lockdown of his residential compound, escaping to China's tropical tourist island of Hainan where he could work remotely as a public health professor after undertaking 10 days of quarantine.

Reuters

China races to contain COVID outbreaks in tourism hubs Tibet, Hainan

China raced on Tuesday to stamp out COVID-19 outbreaks in the tourist hubs of Tibet and Hainan, with the authorities launching more rounds of mass testing and closing venues to contain the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

Reuters

COVID cases rise in China's Hainan, tourists stranded

Another 259 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan

The Independent UK

Covid lockdown sees 80,000 tourists stranded on 'China's Hawaii' in holiday horror

Sanya, the island of Hainan's main tourist hub, imposed a strict Covid lockdown on Saturday and restricted transport links to try to stem the outbreak

Daily Mirror

COVID lockdown turns Chinese tourist hotspot Sanya into nightmare for stranded tourists

When Chinese businesswoman Yang Jing was planning this year's summer holiday in 2021, she chose the tropical southern island of Hainan because of its nigh-perfect COVID track record.

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China's Sanya holiday hotspot shuts duty-free malls, venues to curb COVID

Sanya, a top tropical holiday destination on China's southern Hainan island, began closing its duty free malls on Friday in response to a worsening COVID-19 outbreak.

The Independent UK

China sees record rains, heat as weather turns volatile

From the snowcapped peaks of Tibet to the tropical island of Hainan, China is sweltering under the worst heatwave in decades while rainfall hit records in June

Reuters

Former official and regulator sentenced to death by China for corruption

Tong Daochi, a former senior official of China's southern Hainan province and an ex-securities regulator, was sentenced to death for bribery and insider trading, with a two-year reprieve, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Plots Fresh Military Exercises in South China Sea

China will hold naval exercises in the South China Sea on Saturday, its maritime authority said, after a week of recrimination from Western powers over its military ambitions across the Pacific region. The exercises, set to take place in the sea less than 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) off the coast…

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As Biden Visits Asia, China Launches South China Sea Drills

China is holding military exercises in the disputed South China Sea coinciding with US President Joe Biden’s visits to South Korea and Japan that are largely focused on countering the perceived threat from Beijing. The Maritime Safety Administration office in the southern island province of Hainan said the drills began…

Bangkok Post

China's Hainan free-trade port tipped to deepen Asean ties

HONG KONG: Hainan's transformation into a free-trade port will open new doors for trade between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), but its success will require a leap of faith and pioneering spirit, experts said.

Reuters

As China's travel chill deepens, tourist-starved regions struggle to get by

As China's domestic tourism unravels, desperate provinces are slashing ticket prices, offering tax breaks and even begging locals to help save plummeting tourist earnings in a sector that employs tens of millions of people.

Caixin Global

South China Province Plans to Set Up International Carbon Trading Center

The holiday destination city of Sanya, Hainan, has been selected as a potential site for exchange, slated to open in the second half of this year

Bangkok Post

Vietnam: China’s sea drills violate economic zone

Vietnam asked China not to violate its exclusive economic zone and continental shelf with military drills, foreign ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said in response to reporters’ questions about the Hainan Provincial Customs Administration’s announcement about the exercises.

Bangkok Post

China conducting military drills close to Vietnam coast

BEIJING: China is carrying out more than a week of military drills in the South China Sea in an area between its southern province of Hainan and Vietnam, the government announced, warning shipping to stay away.

Reuters

China announces South China Sea drills close to Vietnam coast

China is carrying out more than a week of military drills in the South China Sea in an area between its southern province of Hainan and Vietnam, the government announced, warning shipping to stay away.

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