(I call for a moratorium on that law for the meantime so that the people here in Batanes can build a stable house because we are really on a typhoon path.) Batanes General Hospital also sustained ...

“I’d have a nosebleed when I go back home today.” I was taken aback when our tour guide, Remy, made this off-the-cuff remark at the start of our much-awaited Batanes sojourn. Our family of four ended ...

There is, in fact, such a place in the Philippines: the remote village of Chavayan on the island of Sabtang in Batanes. Home to about 200 residents, Chavayan is where stone houses — most built over a ...

From an anthropological perspective, Prof. Valientes indicated that the famous stone houses of Batanes reflect the House Society of the Ivatans where, through their structure, social relationships are ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Coastal surveillance radars supplied by Japan will be posted on the Batanes islands less than 200 kilometers from Taiwan, the country’s top military official said Thursday. The ...

Only 6 percent of entire land area is comprised of flat lands. The entire Batanes archipelago boasts of nine volcanoes, of which two are considered active or have shown signs of having erupted in the ...

Exactly a month later, Leon battered Batanes, leaving residents with no option but to confront the aftermath of the typhoon, which is the 12th to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility this year.