The Austronesian language family is one of the largest in the world, comprising more than 1,200 languages spoken from Madagascar to Hawaii. Dang Liu, Albert Min-Shan Ko and Mark Stoneking collected ...

The June 2026 voyage is not a return to an abstract Austronesian past. It is a renewal of Tao–Ivatan relations.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tao indigenous rowers paddle a traditional wooden canoe named Ovayan, or "Golden Friendship," to the Philippines' Batanes Islands, ...

Taipei and Manila are more closely related than we think. If a Filipino has ever been a tourist in Taiwan, they've likely experienced a few "Uy, Pilipins!" moments.

Discussions in Pingtan, Fujian province, have renewed attention on Austronesian history and cross-Strait cultural ties, as experts, scholars and representatives of Taiwan's indigenous communities ...

ORCHID ISLAND, Taitung county, Taiwan — Battling huge waves, 20 Austronesian men in orange lifejackets set off on a hand-carved longboat into the western Pacific Ocean, destined for the home of their ...

DNA analysis of ancient human remains has shed new light on an "explosion" of intermixing cultures and genetics in an island region north of Australia known as Wallacea - an imprint that is still ...

Taiwan and the Philippines are more closely related than we think. If you’ve been a tourist in Taiwan, you’ve likely ...

A group of indigenous Taiwanese seafarers have completed a daring quest, braving choppy waters and using the stars for navigation as they paddled a traditional wooden canoe to the Philippines –– in a ...