Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or ...

Sending of balikbayan boxes to the Philippines has saw a 60% surge this Christmas Also In This Package UAE residents enjoy a festive Christmas Eve Jumeirah bus stops now home to unique works of art ...

Piles of stuffed animals, clothes, hangers, towels, decorations — even bird feeders — were neatly gathered in Nita Matheson’s Springfield, Virginia, house last Wednesday. In her garage, flattened ...

The act of lovingly packing a balikbayan box and sending it back to loved ones is one way of showing them they are always in their hearts. As a child growing up in the Philippines, I remember one of ...

HOUSTON — Balikbayan boxes were invented more than 40 years ago when an influx of Filipino workers came to the United States. Now, they've become a cherished part of Filipino culture. The boxes ...

To figure out what might have happened and what you can do, it might help to understand first the long journey balikbayan boxes go through MANILA, Philippines – The balikbayan box has been an ...

I have never personally received a balikbayan box from abroad addressed to me, nor have I sent one home from abroad to myself (to, say, avoid airline excess baggage fees). But I have surely received ...

MANILA, Philippines — With the volume of balikbayan boxes increasing during the Christmas season and the recent discovery of P1 million worth of smuggled high-end ammunition, the intelligence unit of ...

With investors complaining of continued rampant smuggling and a special task force concluding that there’s extortion outside and inside the Port of Manila, the Bureau of Customs has trained its sights ...

'Leave the balikbayan boxes alone. They are a privilege accorded to OFWs.... Do not disrespect the law,' Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon tells customs inspectors MANILA, Philippines – Customs ...