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 ...

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 Bureau of Customs (BOC) has set a new deadline for the delivery of the estimated 130,000 abandoned balikbayan boxes to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched an online tracking portal for door-to-door Balikbayan box deliveries as part of efforts to clear a long-standing ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Bureau of Customs (BOC) will tighten the rules covering the country’s Balikbayan Box Program after discovering that smugglers are now using this route to bring in goods to ...

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 ...

Holidays are sweeter with “balikbayan” boxes around. Chocolates, candies and clothes top the list of favorite balikbayan box contents, with three in every five readers citing them as among their ...

MANILA – Some 20 container vans of abandoned balikbayan boxes of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are set to be processed ...

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) receive their balikbayan boxes after a long period of waiting. These balikbayan boxes are ...