Goki Akuzawa swapped finance for farming, restoring rice terraces and opening a guesthouse and sake brewery in rural Japan.

The Philippines' ancient rice terraces, carved into mountains like giant green stairs, have been removed from a UN list of endangered world heritage sites, the UN office in Manila said Wednesday. The ...

Limited government resources undercut efforts of Ifugao people to safeguard heritage site from extreme weather effects.

Manila A 2,000 year-old Philippine treasure – the rice terraces that look like wild sculpted green ribbons on 10,360 square kilometer of mountains that straddle five towns on northern Luzon’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A beautiful purple colored rice field in Yuanyang, Yunnan Province, China. (Enrico Barletta/Caters News) A beautiful purple ...

BANAUE, Philippines – The rice terraces are world famous, and the popular tourist site has also gone through several ups and downs over the years. It was always referred to as the eighth wonder of the ...

Jin Taiyang and his friend Zhang Wei (right) experience wakeboarding at Yunhe Rice Terraces in Lishui, Zhejiang province.

My friend, Belinda Olivares Cunanan, insisted that I come for a dinner invitation at the Manila Peninsula. Sorry, I told her I’ve done that. I prefer to stay home ...

IFUGAO, Philippines — The Ifugao Rice Terraces are now in a critical stage of deterioration and do not allow the local communities to overcome the poverty line, according to the United Nations Food ...