DURING THE swashbuckling 40-minute ride to the Philippine island of Batan, the dilapidated wooden boat I shared with dozens of locals crossed paths with a pod of bottlenose dolphins. Despite the ...

CHINESE scholars have claimed that Batanes is a “natural geographic extension of Taiwan” and therefore part of China’s sovereignty, dismissing the validity of Japan-Philippines maritime delimitation ...

There are two groups of islands between Taiwan and Luzon Island in the Philippines. The Batan, or the Batanese, Islands, are located close to Taiwan at a distance of 190km, and the Babuyan Islands are ...

BASCO SEAPORT, Philippines — U.S. and Filipino army divers began clearing debris this week from this strategically important harbor on the northern Philippine island of Batan. The improvements, which ...

It is a principle of international law that “the only form in which a cession can be effected is an agreement normally in the form of a treaty between the ceding and the acquiring state,” as stated in ...

INQUIRER.net joins China Daily in this new Drone and Phone series featuring the islands of Batanes. For the first episode, the show is featuring Mt. Matarem, a 500 meter-tall volcano, and other ...

Batan Island, the gateway to Batanes, is one of three main islands of the province (the others are Sabtang and Itbayat) and home to four of the province’s six municipalities, including Basco, the ...

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Shortly before noon on Sunday, four Osprey tilt-rotor helicopters roared over a verdant ridge in Batan, a remote island in the northern Philippines. “They are coming!” shouted Eugene, a local resident ...

Is Las Vegas' luck changing?It may be too soon to declare that the city's tourism slump is coming to an end, but March was the second straight month where... Breaking the ice: Aurora Expeditions' ...