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 ...

Mitch Villaseñor picks up a balikbayan box. Boxes will then be loaded onto a container, driven to California, and shipped to the Philippines. Credit: Pat Nabong As a kid living in Laguna, a province ...

When Jinky Dolar’s husband, Danielo, went back to the Philippines more than a decade ago, he was met with a surprise: Several of his family and friends were wearing the military t-shirts he thought he ...

MANILA – The Bureau of Customs on Thursday said it has turned over 2,954 abandoned balikbayan boxes to the Department of Migrant Workers that were left unclaimed in Davao after being mishandled. In a ...

THE chairman of the House Committee on Overseas Workers Affairs on Wednesday strongly backed the Bureau of Customs’ (BOC) plan to create a task force dedicated on addressing issues surrounding ...

There is a certain choke hold only balikbayan boxes have on me—a grip that starts the moment Mama calls and says, “Anak, may pinadala ako.” From that very second, I’m caught in this ...

Authorities have seized P39.6 million worth of kush (dried marijuana leaves) concealed in two balikbayan boxes, the Bureau of ...