Scottsdale golf course designers are huge in China May 8, 2008
Asian office: Haikou, Hainan Island, China. Web site: www. (AZCentral -- News)
China-bashing is a blind man's game May 7, 2008
On April 12, Chinas President Hu Jintao met Taiwanese Vice President-elect Vincent Siew in Boao, on Hainan island. On April 29, Lien Chan, the ruling Kuomintang party's honorary chairman, met with Hu Jintao in Beijing. (Asia Times Online)
Olympic torch finally hits mainland China May 6, 2008
After three days on Hainan island, the torch moves to Guangdong province in southern China, where millions of migrant workers labor in what has become the worlds factory floor, making everything from Honda cars to Nike sneakers. More from msnbc. (MSNBC -- Sports)
India worried about China's growing N-sub prowess May 6, 2008
Though tabs were being kept on Chinas underground nuclear submarine base on the southern tip of the Hainan Island in South China Sea, the sheer extent of it - as revealed by latest satellite pictures - has jolted the Indian defence establishment. The Hainan Island base will house the new Chinese Shang-class (Type-093) nuclear-powered attack submarines and the Jin-class (Type-094) SSBNs (nuclear submarines armed with long-range strategic missiles), as reported by TOI last week. (Times of India)
In picturesThe Olympic torch relay is welcomed in China's tropical Hainan May 5, 2008
Thousands of people turned out to cheer the Olympic torch as it began its tour of mainland China at the resort of Sanya, on Hainan island. Security was noticeable but low-key, and the event went smoothly with none of the protests that marked stages of the torch's journey outside China. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
China's attempt to encircle India is cause for alarm. May 4, 2008
NEW DELHI: China continues to take huge strides in building its strategic transborder and "area-denial" military capabilities, with the latest stunning development being the extent of its major underground nuclear submarine base on the southern tip of the Hainan Island ... The Hainan Island underground base, incidentally, will house the new Shang-class (Type-093) nuclear-powered attack submarines and the Jin-class (Type-094) SSBNs. (India Times, India)
Developer works on a future for Beijing's high-end housing market May 4, 2008
Nine of the 11 are in Beijing; the two outside are the Commune at the Great Wall and the Kempinski resort on Hainan Island. Pan's latest contribution to city living and working is the twisted, serrated and camouflage-colored Shangdu SOHO. In Pan's mind it marks a new twist in the materialist road: a retreat to nature. (International Herald Tribune)
Torch begins mainland China tour May 4, 2008
Crowds of people waving flags welcomed the torch to the resort of Sanya, on Hainan island. It arrived in China after a global relay marked by protests over China's policies in Tibet. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
China Builds Secret Nuclear Submarine Base May 3, 2008
A satellite image of China's secret underground nuclear submarine base on Hainan Island in the South China Sea ... The secret base, known as Sanya, is located on the southern tip of Hainan Island in the South China Sea. (Fox News)
Chinese nuclear submarines prompt 'new Cold War' warning May 3, 2008
Satellite photographs passed to The Daily Telegraph this week showed that the secret base at Sanya on Hainan island will house up to 20 of the latest 094 Jin-class nuclear ballistic submarines that could be capable of firing anti-satellite missiles and nuclear-tipped cruise missiles ... China s own space programme - that some experts believe equals Cape Canaveral in size - is also expanding close to the navy base on Hainan island. (Telegraph.co.uk)
China: Let The War Games Begin May 3, 2008
Military Superiority: While the focus is on Iranian and Syrian nuclear activities, China quietly builds an underground submarine base on Hainan Island ... Analysts for Jane's Intelligence Review report massive tunnel entrances at the Yulin naval base near the town of Sanya on the southern tip of Hainan Island. (Investors Business Daily)
Full Story » May 3, 2008
Saturday, May 03, 2008. Olympic torch relay goes to Macau Posted: 03 May 2008 1116 hrs. (Channelnewsasia.com)
China's pride versus Western prejudice May 2, 2008
First, from a Chinese perspective, it was not triggered by an isolated incident like the EP-3 case, when the US Navy spy plane crashed on Hainan island. Tibetan organizations in exile prepared carefully to use the Beijing Summer Olympic Games to draw international attention; Western human-rights activists began politicizing the Olympics with issues like Darfur several years ago. (Asia Times Online)
CHINESE BUILD SECRET NUCLEAR SUB BASE... May 2, 2008
Other images show numerous warships moored to long jettys and a network of underground tunnels at the Sanya base on the southern tip of Hainan island. advertisement. (The Drudge Report)
China has secret base for subs, say analysts May 2, 2008
Other images show warships at long jetties and a network of tunnels at the Sanya base on the southern tip of Hainan island. Of even greater concern to the Pentagon are immense tunnel entrances, estimated to be 18 metres high, carved into hillsides around the base. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
China Frowns on Patriotic Protests Apr 22, 2008
China has experienced similar spasms of public outrage following the accidental bombing by the U.S. of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, and the collision of a Chinese fighter jet with a U.S. surveillance plane near Hainan Island in 2001. "What's different this year is how the people are much more involved," says Callahan. (Time.com)
18 missing in China typhoon Apr 21, 2008
GUANGZHOU, China - Rescue officials expanded their search Sunday for 18 Chinese fishermen still missing after tropical storm Neoguri brushed over southern Hainan island this weekend. Five rescue ships and two helicopters have been deployed in the search mission, said an official with the Hainan provincial disaster relief office who gave his surname as Wu. (MSNBC -- International)
Chinese fisherman rescued in central Vietnam Apr 21, 2008
On April 20, Vietnamese border forces in Ly Son island, Quang Ngai province received the 31 fishermen, including Wu, a resident of China's Hainan island, the newspaper said. . (Xinhuanet, China)
Storm delays flights from Hong Kong Apr 20, 2008
The storm's worst impact was in China's Hainan island, however, where 18 fishermen were reported missing and thousands of residents were evacuated from flooded homes. Hong Kong's flagship airline Cathay Pacific announced Sunday it had cancelled four flights to Auckland, Johannesburg, Los Angeles and Amsterdam as a result of the storm. (Sydney Morning Herald)
* Early typhoon hits Hainan, weakens to tropical storm Apr 20, 2008
Typhoon Neoguri struck Hainan Island late on Friday, forcing flight cancelations and the evacuation of more than 120,000 people from fish farms and low-lying coastal areas, Xinhua news agency reported. DOWNGRADED. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
18 missing as Typhoon Neoguri hits Chinese island Apr 19, 2008
Tropical storm Neoguri brushed over China's southern Hainan island on Saturday, leaving 18 fishermen missing and stranding thousands of travelers, state-run media reported. No deaths were immediately reported as 42,000 residents in five major cities were evacuated, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Tropical storm hits south China, 38 fishermen rescued: report Apr 19, 2008
Typhoon Neoguri swept through Macau in the afternoon, after it struck Hainan island south of mainland China the night before, forcing flight cancellations and the evacuation of 210,000 people, according to Xinhua news agency. The former Portuguese colony closed its three cross-sea bridges linking the Macau peninsula to a neighbouring island, Xinhua said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Typhoon Neoguri Strengthens to Category 2 Storm, Heads to Southern China Apr 18, 2008
The eye of Neoguri, the second storm of the northwest Pacific cyclone season, was over the South China Sea about 113 kilometers east-southeast of Sanya on Hainan Island at 8 a.m. local time today, the center said in its latest. It was 297 kilometers south-southwest of Hong Kong. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Current Issue Apr 18, 2008
The expansion sites -- from Mohe, the northernmost town in China, to Hainan island in the south to Bachu in the far west -- are like a treasure map for GE's infrastructure units. How a small band of sci-fi geeks is leading Hollywood into a new era. (FastCompany)
Vietnam's First Storm Of Year Skirts Central Coast Apr 17, 2008
com says Neoguri is likely to strengthen to a category two typhoon over the next 24 hours and head towards China's Hainan island. The national weather centre said the storm would affect the central region, which is not the main rice growing area. (Planet Ark, United States)
China issues warning against typhoon Apr 17, 2008
Tropical storm Neoguri, which formed in the South China Sea on Tuesday, strengthened into a typhoon Wednesday afternoon and is approaching the sea south of China's Hainan island. Neoguri is the first tropical storm to hit China this year. (Xinhuanet, China)
China official praises meeting between president, Taiwan vice ... Apr 16, 2008
The 20-minute talk, held on the sidelines of a conference of business and world leaders on Hainan Island in southeastern China, was largely symbolic, focusing on boosting economic ties. Today in Asia - Pacific. (International Herald Tribune)
Scenic Hainan island aims to be a world-class tourist hotspot Apr 16, 2008
Hainan island (File Photo). HAIKOU, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Sanya, China's southernmost tropical city, is attracting the eye of more and more foreign tourists with the official launch of a regular passenger line by Star Cruises, one of the world's largest luxury cruise operators. (Xinhuanet, China)
Breaking the iceHistoric meeting helps narrow gulf between China and Taiwan Apr 14, 2008
Pictures of the men shaking hands and sitting down together in China's Hainan island, on the sidelines of the Boao Forum for Asia, were splashed on the front pages of Taiwan's newspapers. Among the Chinese-language papers, the United Daily News said the meeting had created a "great opportunity because of their [the two men's] pragmatism and low-key approach". (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Hu Jintao Meets Taiwan's Vice President-Elect Siew in Show of Warmer Ties Apr 13, 2008
The meeting at the Boao Forum for Asia on southern China's Hainan island discussed trade and economic issues, according to Siew's spokesman and Chinese state-run media organizations. We're at the cusp of a new beginning in cross-Strait ties,'' Siew said, according to a broadcast by state-run China Central Television. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Taiwan VP-Elect Makes History, Meets With Chinese... Apr 13, 2008
The 20-minute talk, held on the sidelines of a conference between business and world leaders on Hainan Island, was largely symbolic, focusing on boosting economic ties. Siew, a 69-year-old technocrat and economics expert, said the meeting was "friendly," and he left with a positive impression of Hu. (Fox News)
Taiwan VP-Elect Meets China's Hu Apr 13, 2008
Beijing, which is extremely cautious about Taiwan affairs, did not immediately comment about the meeting on the sidelines of the Boao Forum, an annual conference with business and world leaders on the balmy Hainan Island. China has repeatedly threatened to attack Taiwan if the island of 23 million people refuses to unify eventually. (Newsmax)
Taiwan's VP to meet China's president Apr 12, 2008
Taiwan's vice president-elect Vicent Siew speaks to the press before departure to China's Hainan island for the Boao Forum at Taoyuan airport on April 11, 2008. . (MSNBC -- International)
Historic China-Taiwan meeting due Apr 12, 2008
The meeting is expected to be short one on the sidelines of a regional business conference on China's Hainan island. Mr Siew is the running-mate of Ma Ying-jeou, who was easily elected as Taiwan's president last month, promising better relations with China. (BBC News)
Tibet hangs heavy over Beijing's torch relay Mar 21, 2008
The domestic leg begins on May 4 in Hainan Island, once a place of political exile but now marketed as "China's Hawaii". All 31 provinces and regions will be visited, including Tibet again on June 19-21, and the far Western province of Xinjiang, home to 8 million Uighur Muslims and where China said police shot and killed two members of a "terrorist gang" last month. (International Herald Tribune)
That Murky Threat from China Mar 5, 2008
Of course, there was nowhere to go but up after the U.S. mistakenly bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, and after China forced a U.S. Navy spy plane to land on China's Hainan Island in 2001 and held its 24-person crew for 11 days. Admiral Timothy Keating, chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, said that relations were improving during his recent visit to Beijing. (Time.com)
China may try to limit opponents satellites Mar 4, 2008
It also said China is improving its own satellite capability, including construction of a new satellite launch complex on Hainan Island. And it said China expects to replace all foreign-produced satellites in its inventory with home-produced models by 2010. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Chinese visit Global facility Mar 2, 2008
Global Food Technologies, which houses its corporate offices in Hanford, recently signed a letter of intent to install and operate its patented food safety system in the Hainan island province, off the coast of southern China. "This agreement is the first step in fulfilling our earlier contract to operate 265 systems in China over the next five years," said Keith Meeks, president of Global Food Technologies. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
* Spratlys are worth making a scene over Feb 5, 2008
China recently established Sansha City on Hainan Island and incorporated Taiping Island into its administrative territory. As Taiwan has long had people stationed on the island, this was a provocation. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
China moves to expand its reach Jan 29, 2008
The protests followed reports of China's legislature ratifying plans for a huge new city administration called Sansha with headquarters in Hainan island to manage the three archipelagos of Paracel, Spratly and Macclessfield Bank. China - itself adept at orchestrating "spontaneous" nationalistic demonstrations - chided Vietnam over the protests but refused to confirm reports of the planned upgrade of the islands administration from Woody Island in the Paracels to the new "county-level city" of... (Asia Times Online)
Chinese taikonaut dismisses environment worries about new space launch center Jan 26, 2008
"The State Environment Protection Administration has concluded that the construction of the new center and the launches of a new range of carrier rockets will be non-toxic and won't damage the environment in Wenchang and the Hainan island at large," said Yang, 43, now deputy director of the China Astronaut Research and Training Center. "The public needn't worry about environmental issues," he said. (Xinhuanet, China)
Ancient Pandas Competed With Giant Apes for Bamboo Dec 29, 2007
Hainan island was a bamboo-covered, hilly peninsula 400,000 years ago, Huang said. Today it is an island separated from the Chinese mainland by a 15-mile-wide (25-kilometer-wide) strait. (National Geographic)
China, Vietnam churn diplomatic waters Dec 20, 2007
What may have finally provoked Hanoi was a policy measure enacted in November by the Chinese State Council administratively incorporating both the Paracel and Spratly Islands into Hainan Island Province. A Chinese administrative outpost on one of the Paracels, Woody Island, was reportedly given the new status as ''county-level city'' of Sansha through the administrative act. (Asia Times Online)
Santa Collides With Chinese Military Plane Dec 20, 2007
According to the Chinese defense ministry, Santas sleigh was being escorted by J-8 fighters from Hainan Island. The Chinese government characterized the fighter escorts as a precaution against Santas aggressive acts that endanger lives. (Newsmax)
U.S. Protests China's Denial of Navy Ship Dec 13, 2007
Port calls were suspended, for example, after a U.S. bomber struck the in in 1999 and in the wake of the mid-air collision in 2001 between a Chinese fighter and EP-3 surveillance plane, whose crew was detained by Chinese authorities after a harrowing landing on Hainan Island. Asked whether Beijing had acted in response to a recent U.S. upgrading of Patriot missiles in , and to not notifying Chinese leaders about the move during a visit to China this month, Morrell said he had heard no such... (Yahoo News -- China)
* Vietnamese rally over islands Dec 10, 2007
The protest came after China last month set up the county-level Sansha administrative unit on Hainan island, which covers 2. 6 million km2, mostly ocean, including the disputed isles. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Washington diaryMatt Frei on how 'toxic toy' fears reflect testy US-China relations Dec 6, 2007
Both sides love to ratchet up the rhetoric, as I discovered when I covered the saga of an American spy plane forced down over Hainan Island in April 2001. I was based in Asia at the time. (BBC News -- Americas)
A dying turtle breed points to a battered China Dec 5, 2007
Many of China's species are concentrated in the mountainous southwestern region - sometimes popularized in the West as Shangri-la - as well as in Tibet, Hainan Island and along the North Korea border. Endangered indigenous species include the Chinese tiger, the giant panda, the Tibetan antelope, several varieties of pheasants and monkeys and a range of small mammals including shrews and rodents. (International Herald Tribune)
Miss China on top of world Dec 3, 2007
Zhang Jilin took the crown in Sanya, aresort at the sub-tropical southern tip of China's Hainan island, at the weekend ... Hainan island, with about eight million residents, has ambitions to become China's Hawaii, and views the contest as an ideal marketing tool. (The Australian)
Beijing beauty puts China on top of the world Dec 3, 2007
David Eimer, Hainan IslandDecember 3, 2007. Local contestant Zhang Zi Lin, 23, wears the crown and sash of Miss World 2007 at the pageant in the Chinese resort city of Sanya, on Hainan Island ... Fireworks exploded over Sanya, a beach resort on Hainan Island, off the south coast, as news of Zhang's win emerged. (The Age, Australia -- Breaking News)
Local girl takes Miss World title in front of Chinese crowd Dec 2, 2007
The audience in the 2,000-seat Beauty Crown Theatre cheered with delight as the 23-year-old was voted the winner in the glittering event on Hainan Island. The secretary from Beijing had been one of the bookmakers' favourites to win. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
* US carrier sailed through Taiwan Strait Dec 1, 2007
The administration was seeking a clarification of contradictory statements by Chinese foreign policy officials over the flap, while at the same time emphasizing that US-Chinese relations remained strong despite the incident, which some analysts are referring to as the biggest US-China military crisis since the forced landing of a US E-P3 reconnaissance aircraft following a collision with a Chinese fighter jet near Hainan Island in 2001. On Nov. 20, only days before the Kitty Hawk was denied... (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
* EDITORIAL: For the US, it's no port in a storm Dec 1, 2007
It was clear from the confusion surrounding the 2001 Hainan Island crisis -- when a US spy plane was shadowed and struck by a Chinese jet and then forced to land on Chinese soil -- that the Chinese military and the communist leadership are not always on the same page. The same phenomenon preceded the launch of a satellite-busting missile in January: Chinese government spokespeople seemed genuinely unaware of the matter until it was brought out into the open by foreign specialists. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Miss World contest 'not sexist', says director Dec 1, 2007
As the 57th pageant moved towards its climax in the resort of Sanya, on China's southern Hainan island, Julia Morley, chairwoman of the Miss World Organisation, passionately defended the event, which some detractors have branded a sexist anachronism. With this year's contest coinciding with World AIDS Day, Morley and her British-based team have made awareness of HIV/AIDS a key part of the build-up - proof, she said, that Miss World was more than just a collection of beautiful women from around... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
A World of Asian Beauties Nov 30, 2007
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The Asian Golf Frontier Nov 29, 2007
Years of success in Asia prompted Schmidt-Curley to recently open a new full service office in Haikou, Hainan Island, China. On the heels of opening the office, the golf course design firm was also voted the "No. 2 Golf Course Architecture Firm" in Asia, behind giant designer Robert Trent Jones, II, by Asian Golf Monthly. (Suite101.com)
Asia getting its legs into the space race Nov 25, 2007
Beijing also boasts the most extensive infrastructure, with three launch sites in place and a just-announced combined pad and theme park on the drawing board on southern Hainan island. Also working in China's favor, said Clay Moltz of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. (Seattle Times)
Washburn: How they got to the China Tour Nov 22, 2007
Current job: Head pro at Haikou Golden Eagle Training Center on Hainan Island ... Personal: Married, one daughter Hometown: Hengyang, Hunan Province, Central China Current residence: Haikou, Hainan Province, South China In 1996, Xiao was entertainment manager at a hotel on Hainan Island (sometimes called the "Hawaii of China") and became intrigued when his bosses purchased an indoor golf simulator for guests to use. (ESPN -- Golf)
China completes enclosure of land for fourth satellite launch center Nov 18, 2007
The construction site of China's fourth satellite launch centre on Hainan Island. (Source: chinanews. (Xinhuanet, China)
Primates: Extinction Threat Growing For Mankind's Closest Living Relatives Oct 30, 2007
Hainan black-crested gibbon (Nomascus hainanus), China (Hainan Island). Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), Indonesia (Sumatra). (Science Daily)
Ten killed in storm and floods in central Vietnam Oct 5, 2007
Before slamming into Vietnam's coast, it killed at least five people in the Philippines and hit Sanya beach resort on China's Hainan island, trapping tourists and forcing the evacuation of 225,000 people. (Additional reporting by Nguyen Huy Kham). (AlertNet)
Three die as typhoon hits Vietnam Oct 5, 2007
The storm had appeared to be heading towards China but changed its course, shaving the southern coastline of Hainan island before reaching Vietnam. An area stretching more than 300km (190 miles) had been classified by the Vietnamese government as being in "extreme danger". (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Typhoon Lekima kills 12 in Southeast Asia Oct 4, 2007
The storm hit China's beach resort of Sanya on Hainan island on Tuesday, trapping tourists and forcing the evacuation of 225,000 people. Vietnamese authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people before the storm hit. (AlertNet)
China, Vietnam Evacuate Thousands as Storm Strikes Oct 4, 2007
The typhoon made landfall late on Tuesday near China's beach resort of Sanya, on the southern tip of tropical Hainan island, trapping tourists and forcing the evacuation of 225,000 people. Vietnam had moved hundreds of thousands of children and the elderly to higher ground. (Planet Ark, United States)
Vietnam battens down for storm Oct 4, 2007
Lekima made landfall late on Tuesday near China's beach resort of Sanya on the southern tip of Hainan Island, where more than 225,000 residents were reportedly evacuated. In Vietnam, an area stretching more than 300km (190 miles) between the central provinces of Thanh Hoa and Quang Binh faced "extreme danger" and would need to be evacuated, the government said. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
