MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook the province of Batanes on Thursday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs). Tectonic in origin, ...

THROUGH its Regional English Language Office, the US Embassy in the Philippines equipped 50 high school teachers from across ...

An English teaching program has given high school teachers in Batanes new tools to strengthen classroom learning, blending ...

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 ...

At the northernmost tip of the Philippines, Batanes is perhaps the perfect getaway for practically any type of person who can afford the 5-digit two-way travel cost and expenses for a few days' stay.

I must admit that, without an official invitation from Columbian Autocar Corp. (CAC) exclusive distributors of KIA vehicles in the country, I wouldn’t have found myself in this northernmost province ...

The governor of the Batanes islands, less than 200km (125 miles) from Taiwan, said in August she had sought US funding for a new port there. The US embassy had at the time confirmed its diplomats and ...

A cluster of islands in the northernmost region of the Philippines is so remote that they are actually closer to Taiwan than to most parts of the Philippines. The islands sit 100 miles north of Luzon, ...