Couples in the southern island province of Hainan even braced bad weather and lined up in the rain, waiting for their chance to say "I do".
State media said patrols in the southern island province of Hainan would be able to board foreign ships that stopped in its waters or violated other regulations.
Indeed, the island province of Hainan off the southern coast even wants to leapfrog such decades-old technologies as credit and debit cards and automated teller machines and move directly to microchip-laden smart cards.
As the island-province's economic czar, he has dabbled (so far unsuccessfully) in peacemaking.
Kim was born to middle-class farmers on Ha Enido, a small island in South Cholla province, but the family moved to the nearby port of Mokpo so Kim could complete high school.
The new areas selected by naked Retreats for expansion are along the Great Wall in Beijing, on an island in Taihu Lake in Jiangsu province, and also in the Shanghai and Guangzhou areas.
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Manila, on the island of Luzon, and the nearby province of Rizal bore the brunt of the storm.
The highway linking the province to the east of the island is half-paved.
Growth in pivotal Guangdong province slowed and business on Hainan Island was brought to a virtual standstill by a real-estate bubble, now once more a problem.
Coconut Island, in the bucolic, slow-paced province of Kerala, is a tropical paradise where your only neighbors are the herons, owls and crabs that populate this remote coconut plantation.
The fuel will be processed on a floating rig some 80 km northwest of Palawan island in the west, and piped 504 km to Batangas province, south of Manila.
In British Columbia, that matters: there, apart from a few small areas (such as on Vancouver Island), natives never ceded their land by treaty and claim that nearly all the province is still theirs.
The Indonesian parliament agreed unanimously to let the province of East Timor become independent, as thousands of refugees from the west of the island made their way back home.
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