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                    [Title] => Capturing Batanes
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Pastureland as far as your eyes can see, undulating emerald hills, boulder-strewn beaches and the changing colors of the seas from turquoise to lapis lazuli blue. The Ivatan historic stone houses in Sabtang built to stand the lashing winds from the north — these are the islands of Batanes.

[DatePublished] => 2007-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Newsmakers [SectionUrl] => newsmakers [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271775 [Title] => Batanes prepares for Unesco heritage listing [Summary] => BASCO, Batanes (AFP) — Nothing much has changed in Batanes in a hundred years or more. There are no shopping malls or luxury apartments, electricity is relatively new and telecommunications remain a novelty in this remote corner of the Philippine archipelago, separated only by the Bashi Channel from southern Taiwan.

So isolated are the islands that make up the country’s smallest province that they are often left off local maps of the Philippines altogether.

But all that is about to change.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
BATANES HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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                    [ArticleID] => 394925
                    [Title] => Capturing Batanes
                    [Summary] => 


Pastureland as far as your eyes can see, undulating emerald hills, boulder-strewn beaches and the changing colors of the seas from turquoise to lapis lazuli blue. The Ivatan historic stone houses in Sabtang built to stand the lashing winds from the north — these are the islands of Batanes.

[DatePublished] => 2007-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Newsmakers [SectionUrl] => newsmakers [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271775 [Title] => Batanes prepares for Unesco heritage listing [Summary] => BASCO, Batanes (AFP) — Nothing much has changed in Batanes in a hundred years or more. There are no shopping malls or luxury apartments, electricity is relatively new and telecommunications remain a novelty in this remote corner of the Philippine archipelago, separated only by the Bashi Channel from southern Taiwan.

So isolated are the islands that make up the country’s smallest province that they are often left off local maps of the Philippines altogether.

But all that is about to change.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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