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 ...

This story has been corrected. SAN ANTONIO, Philippines — U.S. soldiers and Marines and Filipino troops demonstrated an air assault on three islands guarding a key strait near Taiwan, sending a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATAN ISLAND, Philippines (AP) — The U.S.

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 ...

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 ...