MANILA, Philippines — Talk about basketry as a heritage craft and one of the first places that will come to mind is Antequera in Bohol. Nestled among the gentle hills and forested slopes of the ...

But the story of Antequera’s basket weaving tradition actually began in 1911, when a few pioneering families in Barangay Bicahan engaged in the making of Bukag, which are large, wide-mouthed ...

It has been four years since Bohol was hit by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake—the strongest in the Philippines in 23 years. The disaster has changed not only the landscape of the small beautiful ...