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Race Across the World locations: Where was the 2025 series filmed?

After starting at the Great Wall of China, the teams reached the southernmost tip of India in an epic journey across three countries

The Independent UK

The Lens Of Humanity: Andrew Pateras’ Global Journey Through The Eyes Of A Photographer

Exploring cultures and landmarks worldwide, Pateras' lens captures the essence of human experience and the beauty of diverse narratives.

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Shanghai added, Hyderabad retained as Formula E reveals full 2024 calendar

The Shanghai International Circuit will play host to rounds 12 and 13 on 25-26 May, just over five years after FE last visited China with a race on the island city of Sanya.

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In China's tourist hotspot Sanya, small vendors rue lukewarm recovery

Sophia Ong, owner of a small eatery in China's tourist beach hotspot Sanya, thought she would be ideally placed to reap the benefits of the country scapping its zero-COVID policy in December last year.

Reuters

Crowds try to flee Shanghai Ikea store to avoid strict COVID-19 lockdown in China

Health authorities try to lock down customers at a Chinese Ikea store over an "abnormal" coronavirus test result as dozens of people flee.

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YouTuber shares 'holiday from hell' after COVID-19 outbreak in China's Sanya puts hotel into lockdown

Located on Hainan Island in the South China Sea, Sanya is a popular holiday spot known for its beaches and has been described as "China's Hawaii". But about 80,000 tourists have been stranded there after a COVID-19 outbreak.

ABC 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.

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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

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

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.

Reuters

Thousands Stranded in China Resort City amid COVID Lockdown

Some 80,000 tourists are stranded in the southern Chinese beach resort of Sanya, after authorities declared it a COVID-19 hot spot and imposed a lockdown. The restrictions came into force on Saturday morning, as authorities sought to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the city on tropical Hainan Island. There…

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Thousands stranded in China resort city amid COVID lockdown

Some 80,000 tourists are stranded in the southern Chinese beach resort of Sanya, after authorities declared it a COVID-19 hot spot and imposed a lockdown

The Independent UK

Chinese resort city Sanya locked down

SHANGHAI: The southern Chinese beach holiday city of Sanya imposed a lockdown on Saturday and shut its public transport system to try to stop a Covid-19 outbreak during its peak tourist season.

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Chinese tourist hot spot Sanya imposes COVID lockdown

The southern Chinese resort city of Sanya imposed a lockdown on Saturday and restricted transport links to try to stem a COVID-19 outbreak that comes as some 80,000 visitors were enjoying its beaches at peak season.

Reuters

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.

Reuters

Southern Chinese tourism city Sanya imposes lockdown measures, restricts businesses

The southern Chinese city of Sanya, a tourism hotspot, imposed lockdown measures from Thursday in most parts of the city, ordering residents to reduce their trips outside to shop for daily necessities to once every two days and confining some strictly to their homes.

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Former Sanya Party Chief Sentenced to Death

Tong Daochi is convicted of insider trading and taking $43 million of bribes and is also sentenced to a fine and confiscation of all personal property

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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

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