CEBU CITY, Philippines — For decades, the town of Santa Fe in Bantayan Island has been known as Cebu ... on a quest to put their hometown on the map for a different purpose.

Philippine authorities are preparing to lift the protected wilderness area status of the Bantayan island group in the central Philippines. The status, imposed in 1981, limits the construction of ...

Flight to Bantayan Island from Mactan Island opens, cutting what used to be a six-hour trip by land and a ferry boat ride to just 30 minutes. The inaugural flight via a 72-seater twin-engine turboprop ...