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BASCO, Batanes – The 10-year wait for the formal opening of trade and cultural relations between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and this northernmost province ended the other day with formal forging of a trade and cultural pact between the two places.


Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office chief Hsin-Hsing Wu led the Chinese group, which include Walis Pelin, minister of the Council of Indigenous Peoples, and Kuei Kuang Chou, mayor of the Province of Lan Yu.


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BASCO, Batanes — The long wait is finally over.


A 60-seater Asian Spirit turbo plane made the first-ever flight from this northernmost territory to Kaoshiung in Taiwan last Friday.


En Bi Wu, an enterprising Taiwanese who has been wooing the Ivatans (as the Batanes natives are known) to allow him to develop their island-province as a tourist destination, made the 52-minute chartered flight possible.


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ILAGAN, Isabela — Artifacts dug in the island province of Batanes revealed some cultural links between the Ivatans and the  inhabitants of Taiwan’s Orchid Island (Lan Yu).


According to the unpublished study of scientists Peter Bellwood and Dr. Eusebio Dizon of the National Museum,  relics such as iron tools,  Taiwan slates and nephrite, which were used to make tools and ornaments in sitio Anaro in Itbayat, Batanes show that the Orchid Island was inhabited by the Ivatans since the time of Christ.


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The delegation was supposed to have come here by boat last April. However, scare over the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) delayed the visit.


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Because of the SARS scare sweeping most parts of the region, Gov. Vicente Gato said the first direct travel between Lan Yu Island in Taiwan and this province, scheduled early this week, has been postponed.


As originally planned, 40 delegates each from the Yamei tribe of Lan Yu Island and the Ivatan tribe would exchange visits under the "Lan Yu-Ivatan Cultural and Economic Exchange Visit" program.


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An equal number of Ivatans (natives of Batanes) will visit Lan Yu Island on April 25-30.


It used to be that travel either from here or Taiwan had to pass through Manila due to immigration requirements.


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En Bi Wu, an enterprising Taiwanese who has been wooing the Ivatans (as the Batanes natives are known) to allow him to develop their island-province as a tourist destination, made the 52-minute chartered flight possible.


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According to the unpublished study of scientists Peter Bellwood and Dr. Eusebio Dizon of the National Museum,  relics such as iron tools,  Taiwan slates and nephrite, which were used to make tools and ornaments in sitio Anaro in Itbayat, Batanes show that the Orchid Island was inhabited by the Ivatans since the time of Christ.


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The delegation was supposed to have come here by boat last April. However, scare over the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) delayed the visit.


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An equal number of Ivatans (natives of Batanes) will visit Lan Yu Island on April 25-30.


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Taiwan, Batanes forge trade relations

March 27, 2007 - 12:00am

BASCO, Batanes – The 10-year wait for the formal opening of trade and cultural relations between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and this northernmost province...

Nation

Finally, first ever flight from Batanes to Kaoshiung

By Jack Castaño | July 26, 2006 - 12:00am

BASCO, Batanes — The long wait is finally over. A 60-seater Asian Spirit turbo plane made the first-ever flight from this northernmost territory to Kaoshiung in Taiwan last Friday. En Bi Wu, an enterprising...

Nation

Artifacts trace cultural links between Ivatans, Taiwanese

By Charlie Lagasca | October 25, 2005 - 12:00am

ILAGAN, Isabela — Artifacts dug in the island province of Batanes revealed some cultural links between the Ivatans and the inhabitants of Taiwan’s Orchid Island (Lan Yu). According to the unpublished...

Nation

Taiwanese island folk visit forebears’ land

By Jack Castaño | September 10, 2003 - 12:00am

BASCO, Batanes — Forty-five Taiwanese, mostly members of the Yamei tribe of Taitung county in Lan Yu Island, arrived Sunday afternoon on a sentimental journey to visit this land of their forebears. The delegation...

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Batanes folk scared of SARS, too

April 27, 2003 - 12:00am

BASCO, Batanes — Residents of this northernmost province are also wary of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Because of the SARS scare sweeping most parts of the region, Gov. Vicente Gato said the...

Nation

First direct Batanes-Taiwan flight slated next month

By Jack Castaño | March 22, 2003 - 12:00am

BASCO, Batanes – After the long wait, the first direct flight between this northernmost province and Taiwan’s southernmost island of Lan Yu (Orchid Island) is slated on April 21, when a 40-man Taiwanese...

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