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Women strike for bonuses and pay

National
2009-11-13

NEARLY 3,000 women workers of a German-invested company in south China's Hainan Province have begun a strike to press their demands on bonus, pay and vacations. The Chinese workers gathered yesterday in front...

Citizens called out for croc hunt

National
2009-10-31

A TOWNSHIP government in south China is turning its citizens into crocodile bounty hunters after dozens of the toothy reptiles escaped from a farm in Hainan Province. Or, if the residents would rather have the...

Partial shipping services partly resume in Qiongzhou Strait

National
2009-9-30

MARITIME authority in south China's Hainan Province ordered today a partial resumption of shipping services in Qiongzhou Strait as Typhoon Kestana faded. Haikou Maritime Affairs Bureau decided that ships that...

Typhoon Kestana shaves Hainan, heading to Vietnam

National
2009-9-29

TYPHOON Kestana shaved China's southernmost island province of Hainan today, heading westward to Vietnam, the meteorological stations in south China monitored. The typhoon was only 260 km away from Sanya City,...

Tropical storm Kestana brings strong gale to Hainan

National
2009-9-28

STRONG gale brought by tropical storm Kestana began to hit China's southernmost island province of Hainan today. The provincial meteorological station monitored the storm at 16.1 degrees north and 113.3 degrees...

Rare twin tigons born in Hainan

National
2009-9-28

RARE twin tigons, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion, have survived their first 28 days since being born in a wildlife park in south China's Hainan Province, a park official announced yesterday. The...

Hainan launch site to power space program

National
2009-9-15

CONSTRUCTION began yesterday in Hainan on China's fourth launch center as the country gears up for future space missions powered by a new generation of carrier rockets. The Wenchang center on the northeast coast...

China begins space center construction in Hainan

National
2009-9-14

CHINA today began construction of its new space launch center in Wenchang City, on the northeast coast of the tropical island province of Hainan, which is scheduled to be completed by 2013. The Hainan Space Satellite...

New storm threatens south coast

National
2009-9-14

GALES and heavy rain are forecast over south China's Hainan and Guangdong provinces today, brought by a new tropical storm formed early yesterday north of Luzon of the Philippines. The new storm, the 15th of the...

Goni Deaths Rise To 6

National
2009-8-12

THE death toll from tropical storm Goni now stands at six in south China's Hainan Province, with another 16 missing, officials said yesterday. The body of a fisherman was retrieved yesterday at Yangpu Port. Goni...