Batanes has never needed another nation to tell it where it belongs. For generations, the Ivatan people have lived under the ...

The Philippine government on Friday rejected claims by Chinese scholars questioning the country's sovereignty over Batanes, ...

Batanes Governor Ronald P. Aguto Jr. has reaffirmed that the country’s northernmost province remains an integral part of the ...

The June 2026 voyage is not a return to an abstract Austronesian past. It is a renewal of Tao–Ivatan relations.

A symposium in Guangzhou has claimed Batanes ‘constitutes a natural geographical extension of Taiwan’ and therefore belongs ...

71.784 square kilometers of the total land area, or roughly around 14 percent, represent the combined land areas of the seven uninhabited islets. Only 6 percent of entire land area is comprised of ...

CAMP MELCHOR DELA CRUZ, Gamu, Isabela — The Philippine military on Friday drew a clear line on sovereignty over Batanes, with ...

RECENT remarks by some Chinese academics claiming that Batanes “belongs to China through Taiwan” have understandably stirred unease among Filipinos. These assertions, though not official ...

In sharing Batanes’ history through movement, Ballet Philippines signals a commitment to put Filipino stories at the center of the classical stage Before there were maps, there was muscle memory. In ...

MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino anthropologist has dismissed as “politically motivated” the claim of a Chinese researcher ...

After accomplishing my goal of visiting all 195 UN-recognized countries, I’m now embarking on a new long-term mission—to explore every city and municipality in the Philippines. No matter how many ...

Scholarship that seeks genuine truth deserves respect; scholarship that begins with a predetermined conclusion and works ...