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 ...

R'Bonney Gabriel is letting her Filipino side show with the multiple balikbayan boxes she took to the airport. With just a week left before the coronation for this year's Miss Universe pageant, all ...

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 ...

A balikbayan box door-to-door service operator shares the important things you need to know about sending parcels during the pandemic. Those who are unable to travel to the Philippines due to the ...

Peak season for sending care packages begins in September in time for Christmas Dubai: Officials have reminded Filipino expatriates to send their balikbayan boxes, or care packages, through legitimate ...

'The carefully curated contents of the balikbayan box reinforce the migrant mother’s position as key decision-maker of the home' When her daughter first got her menstrual period, Hermie, an OFW in ...

“BALIKBAYAN” boxes are again being used to smuggle contraband items into the country. This was disclosed on Thursday by Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, who said the agency was able to intercept ...

MANILA, Philippines - Just in time for Christmas. The Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Finance signed the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Customs Modernization and Tariff ...

The Bureau of Customs intercepts high-caliber firearms smuggled into the country from the US through a balikbayan box MANILA, Philippines – Just months after the government made balikbayan boxes duty ...

R’Bonney Gabriel is a Filipina through and through! The reigning Miss Universe posted her airport look before flying out to El Salvador. R’Bonney slayed an all-purple look of a bralette, mini skirt, ...