A passenger liner leaves Xiuying port in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, on August 8, 2009. Shipping services across south China's Qiongzhou Strait, separating the Hainan island and the mainland, resumed Saturday afternoon as tropical storm "Goni" churned southward. [Xinhua]

A passenger liner leaves Xiuying port in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, on August 8, 2009. [Xinhua]