The Air China pilot appeared not to have followed the controller's instructions and made a rapid unapproved ascent.

China’s new map could worsen clashes in the area, said Donald Rothwell, a professor of law at the Australian National University in Canberra, who focuses on the law of the sea.

Space-inspired attractions are just one way that China is diversifying its tourism offerings on Hainan beyond the beach. A Hello Kitty-themed resort and park is under construction with a tentative ...

If the Japanese had full control anywhere, it ought to have been in Hainan, the 160-by-90-mile island off China's south coast. Tough, bandy-legged Japanese marines seized Hainan in February 1939 ...