Sabtang Island, with only about 1,700 inhabitants, is the smallest of the three inhabited islands of Batanes. Still, the ...

The United States is deploying units of its NMESIS (Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System) to the island province of Batanes as part of the ...

The capital of Batanes Province is Basco and is under Region II which is 860 kilometers north of Manila. Basco is on Batan Island. Batanes is the only province in the Philippines declared in its ...

an activity where armed forces practice retaking an island from an enemy force. It was held in Batanes. “The NMESIS, a land-based missile system designed to target and deter hostile naval forces ...

At the northern end of the channel is Taiwan’s Lan Yu, or Orchid Island, whose population ... it also bombed the Philippines within 10 hours, starting in Batanes, where a huge radio transmitter ...

Regional Director Pinky T. Jimenez said the project, titled “Connecting the Islands of Batanes: From Isolation to Digital Inclusion,” was selected from more than 900 global entries and is competing ...