The Latest Breaking News from Sanya

The nine-way Formula E title fight going down to the wire in London

Jake Dennis leads a nine-way fight as Formula E heads to London for the season finale, but who is best placed to take the title?

Autosport · Aug 11

DS Penske on the pace and in the points!

The two DS Penske drivers, Maximilian Günther and Taylor Barnard, executed a clever race strategy that secured them points. Despite numerous incidents on the track, they managed to climb to 5th and 9th places at the end of a wild race

Autosport · Jun 20

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 · May 1, 2025

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 · Aug 15, 2022

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 · Aug 14, 2022

‘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 · Aug 12, 2022

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 · Aug 9, 2022

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 · Aug 7, 2022

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 · Aug 7, 2022

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Aug 6, 2022