Our country plays host to the 48th ASEAN Summit at a critical juncture in the region’s push for partnership, and the theme ...

Unearthed from a dried-up river channel in Barangay Libertad, Butuan City, in 1970, the 11 excavated ‘balangay’ boats were more than spectators of the old ...

MANILA, Philippines -When filmmaker Laurice Guillen called us last weekend to ride the following day on a replica of an ancient vessel, we didn’t exactly know what we were in for. But it sounded ...

I was thrilled to know that the ancient Balangay boat replica will sail again the Philippine seas in December. Called The Balangay Voyage the group continues to work on replicas of the ancient boats ...

BUTUAN CITY, Agusan del Norte, Philippines — On Dec. 17 last year, two wooden boats docked at the port of nearby Nasipit town, in Agusan del Norte province, the modern gateway for goods and people in ...

The Balangay Sama Tawi-tawi navigates along Butuan Bay as it moves towards the Agusan River after a 31-hours trip from Zamboanga City. Eight years after its first voyage from Butuan, the balangay boat ...

BUTUAN CITY — A replica of a boat used by early Filipinos to trade with the rest of Asia stopped over here briefly to seek the blessing of “spirits” of mariners who, centuries ago, roamed the seas in ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Four years since it was discovered in a marshy plain in northern Mindanao, the largest ancient Filipino boat ever ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. The bill seeking to declare the Philippines' ancient wooden boat, balangay, as the national boat is among the ...

A Philippine official said on Friday that he would sail a replica of a balangay — the country’s oldest known boat — across the disputed South China Sea all the way to China, in what was envisioned as ...