Explore the significance of rice in Asia, from its historical roots and diverse culinary uses to the breathtaking rice ...

September 2001: joint ICOMOS/IUCN Reactive Monitoring mission; June 2005: UNESCO expert mission; April 2006: joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS/IUCN Reactive Monitoring mission; March 2011: joint ...

The Philippines’ myriad ethnic groups create vivid crafts and vibrant fabrics. Amid the rice terraces of Kalinga, in northern Luzon, a century-old tattoo artist hand-taps tribal designs.

The Philippines achieved full independence from ... where their ancestors carved monumental rice terraces and built thatched limestone houses. Majestic, Spanish-influenced churches and ancestral ...

Slater previously described the design as inspired by the Banaue Rice Terraces, the so-called "Eighth Wonder of the World" and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Philippines, working around the ...

the Ifugao Rice Terraces. Now another economic sector is facing a similar dilemma. Data gathered by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed that there has been a decline in the number of youths ...