Customers purchase electronic goods at a duty-free store of a shopping mall in Haikou, South China's Hainan province, on July 1, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] An iPhone 11 Pro Max with 512GB storage is priced ...

HAIKOU, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 3 July 2025 - This summer, journalists and photographers from the United States, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries ...

BEIJING — Heavy flooding in central and southern China has killed at least nine people with and displaced tens of thousands as more rainfall was forecast on the way, state media reported Tuesday ...

Louis Vuitton's latest Shanghai store is not your average luxury flagship. The 30-meter-high, ship-shaped store, "The Louis", is billed as an experience, and houses an exhibition space and cafe in ...

Hainan, with its seaside resort of Sanya, became a top spot for shopping. The results were so promising that in 2021 industry analysts believed China would become the world’s largest luxury ...

Such brands had counted on a post-pandemic boom that had tripled sales to 43.76 billion yuan in 2023 from 2019, helped by a 2020 increase in purchase limits at Hainan's 12 duty-free malls.

The Sanya duty-free shopping complex in Hainan province on Jan 25, 2023. The number of shoppers visiting Hainan fell 15.9 per cent to 5.68 million in 2024 from 6.76 million the year before.

Such brands had counted on a post-pandemic boom that had tripled sales to 43.76 billion yuan in 2023 from 2019, helped by a 2020 increase in purchase limits at Hainan's 12 duty-free malls.

BEIJING (Reuters) -Duty-free spending slumped 29.3% last year in China's island province of Hainan, where global luxury players from LVMH to Kering have set up shop, as a weak economy led to a sharp ...