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 ...

THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) has committed to hasten the release of delayed balikbayan boxes in time for the Christmas season.

Few Filipino Americans have ever opened a balikbayan box, muses chef Aaron Verzosa of Archipelago, about the giant care packages filled with food, clothing and trinkets sent home to the Philippines ...

The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) is ramping up its delivery efforts of thousands of long-delayed balikbayan boxes ...

“Balikbayan” boxes are familiar sights in the homes of Filipinos with relatives who live or work in other countries. Sending balikbayan boxes—defined by the government as packages of personal effects ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched a tracking system that would enable Filipinos to check on the status of parcels and “balikbayan” boxes sent to them by their families and friends abroad. The ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has committed to hastening the release of delayed balikbayan box shipments in time for the Christmas season. Customs ...

A week after the Bureau of Customs (BOC) came under fire over Commissioner Alberto Lina’s directive for customs officers to open and inspect balikbayan boxes, the agency is now in the process of ...

My mother and I spent an afternoon unfurling my lola’s apartment a few days after she died, back in 2017. In her closet, my grandmother had stored a big cardboard box with an address in Manila written ...

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 ...

MANILA, Philippines—The Bureau of Customs was able to seize kush or dried marijuana leaves again, this time worth P158.7 million, in another set of balikbayan boxes coming from Thailand. BOC said on ...